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Bereznitskiy Gallery
Doesn't settle for anything less than the best Ukrainian artists.
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Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts
Bosch, Velazquez and Rubens are among the many masters represented, but they are only part of the attraction. The house, with its frescoed ceilings and intricately carved woodwork, alone is worth the price of admission. All the better that it's packed with priceless antique furniture, ancient Greek sculptures, porcelain ceramics and dazzling paintings, like a version of Hieronymus Bosch's Temptation of St Anthony .
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Bulgakov Museum
A little way up on the left of Andriyivsky uzviz, the early home of the much-loved author of The Master and Margarita has become the memorable Bulgakov Museum. Mikhail Bulgakov lived here long before writing it, between 1906 and 1919 but this building was the model for the Turbin family home in The White Guard, his first full-length novel. You may want to take a guide to explain who's who in the family photos.
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Chornobyl Museum
It's hard to convey the full horror of the world's worst nuclear accident, but the Chornobyl Museum makes a valiant attempt. Displaying the identity cards and photos of those killed in the aftermath of the 1986 explosion, it's a permanent shrine to their heroism. Photos of the area afterwards and graphs of radiation contamination serve as a stark reminder and warning.
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Arguably Kyiv's most beloved gallery, on Kyiv's most beloved street.
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Historical Treasures Museum
The Historical Treasures Museum, behind the Dormition Cathedral, has an astounding collection of precious stones and metal found or made in Ukraine. The highlight is the fabulous hoard of gold jewellery worked for the Scythians by Greek Black Sea colonists. Much of the treasures come from two 4th-century BC burial mounds: the Tolstaya grave in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Gaimana grave in the Zaporizhzhya region.
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Museum of Microminiature
Beneath the Great Bell Tower (above the Dormition Cathedral) on the south side, the Museum of Microminiature provides something even for atheists within this holiest of holies - and, boy, it is popular! Possibly the most orderly queues in unruly Kyiv form in front of Russian Siadristy's tiny creations. The world's smallest book (with some verses of Shevchenko), a balalaika with strings 1/40th the width of a human hair and a flea fitted with golden horseshoes are just some of his works of whimsy.
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Museum of One Street
There are diversions galore along Andriyivsky uzviz, including a few wonderful cafés, restaurants, galleries, crafts shops and museums. At the foot of the uzviz , the individual histories of the descent's buildings are laid out in the Museum of One Street. The sheer jumble-sale eclecticism of the collection - showcasing the lives of dressmakers, soldiers, a rabbi and more - exudes bags of charm.
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Museum of the Great Patriotic War
There's not much to say about Rodina Mat (literally 'Nation's Mother', but formally called the Defence of the Motherland Monument). However, from certain parts of Kyiv it's highly visible and so requires a fittingly high-profile explanation. Especially when you're journeying in from the left (or east) bank, this 62m-tall statue of a female warrior is liable to loom up on the horizon and make you wonder, 'What the hell is that?'
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Museum of Ukrainian Folk and Decorative Arts
The cluster of buildings just south of the Assumption Cathedral includes the mildly interesting Museum of Ukrainian Folk and Decorative Arts and the Refectory Church of St Antoniy & St Feodosiy, sporting the monastery's most famous gold-striped dome. The main domed space is slightly reminiscent of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), with its ring of small narrow windows along the base of the drum. The interior is beautifully painted with biblical scenes, saints and Art Nouveau patterns.
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National Art Museum
The National Art Museum displays early Ukrainian icons, and paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries, including some by polymath national poet Taras Shevchenko.
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National Museum of Ukrainian History
The huge Stalinist building behind the Desyatynna Church ruins on Andriyivsky uzviz, with a wonderful view of Podil and Kyiv's northern suburbs, is the National Museum of Ukrainian History. It has exhibits of archaeological and recent historical interest, including books and currencies.
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PinchukArtCentre
The rotating exhibits at the world-class PinchukArtCentre feature elite names in the world of European contemporary art and design, all financed by billionaire mogul Viktor Pinchuk. British giants Antony Gormley and Damian Hirst were among those whose works were on display when we visited.
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Pyrohovo Museum of Folk Architecture
Ukraine is dotted with 'open-air' museums like this, full of life-size models of different rustic buildings. However, the Pyrohovo Museum of Folk Architecture, 12km south of Kyiv, is one of the most fun and best maintained.
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Russian Art Museum
The Russian Art Museum has 2000 paintings that comprise the largest collection of Russian artwork outside Moscow and St Petersburg.
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St Michael's Gold-Domed Monastery Museum
St Michael's Gold-Domed Monastery's fascinating history is explained in great detail (in Ukrainian and English placards) in a museum located in the monastery's bell tower. The museum also explains the sad history of the neighbouring Tryokhsvyatytelska Church, destroyed by the Soviets in 1934. They then added insult to injury by building the gargantuan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pl Mykhaylivska 1) on the site.
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Taras Shevchenko Memorial House Museum
The Taras Shevchenko Memorial House Museum is in a beautifully restored, 19th-century wooden house where the great man once lived.
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Tsekh
Refuge for underground artists; can be either spectacular or substandard.
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Zhyvopysna aleya
About three-quarters of the way up Andriyivsky uzviz on the left, just before you get to St Andrew's Church, is Zhyvopysna aleya, which turns into a giant outdoor art gallery on weekends. We can't say much for the art (anyone for an air-brushed portrait of a semi-clad vixen in front of St Andrew's Cathedral?), but the leafy path leading southeast from here to Volodymyrska Hirka park makes for a pleasant walk or jog.
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