Kiev-Pechersk Lavra
Kiev, Lavrskaya, 15, building. 42Kiev-Pechersk Lavra - the oldest and one of the main Orthodox shrines, a unique monastic complex, which has no analogues in the world. This is the first monastery in the territory of Kievan Rus, here preserved almost in its original form the temples built in the 11th century.
Bulgakov Museum in Kiev
Kiev, Andreevsky spusk, 13Bulgakov Museum in Kiev is located on one of the most interesting and beautiful streets of the Ukrainian capital - Andreevsky Descent. House No. 13 was built over 100 years ago. The family of Mikhail Bulgakov settled here in 1906 and lived until 1919.
National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky
Lviv, Svobody Ave., 20This museum, founded in the early 20th century as a church, became one of the symbols of the development of Ukrainian culture. The founder, the Greek Catholic metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, donated more than 10,000 items to the museum and kept it at his own expense.
National History Museum in Kiev
Kiev, Vladimirskaya, d. 2The National Museum of Ukrainian History is the leading historical museum of the country, since 1944 located in Kiev, on the Starokievo mountain. Here are stored ethnographic and archaeological finds, paintings and sculptures, numismatic collections, early printed books.
Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art
Odessa, Pushkinskaya, 9This museum is considered one of the best of such profile in Ukraine. His collections are represented by private collections, as well as receipts from the city's Fine Arts Museum.
Golden Gate
Kiev, ,, 40-АIts name was the Golden Gate of Kiev from the triumphal gates of Constantinople. Probably, it was a kind of rivalry with the great Byzantine Empire. Here met eminent guests and foreign ambassadors. The prince's druzhina guards saw off here, and after the end of the campaigns they were met with honors by the winners.
Lychakiv Cemetery
Lviv, st. Mechnikova, d. 33This place is difficult to call a classic museum. However, for the history and culture of the cemetery is of great value. Founded at the end of the XVIII century Lychakivsky - one of the most majestic necropolises of Europe.
The Pharmacy Museum in Lviv
Lviv, st. Drukarskaya, 2This museum was opened in Lviv in the 60s of the last century on the basis of an old pharmacy. By the way, it still works. The exposition is located in 16 halls, where more than 3 thousand exhibits are collected.
The Water Museum in Kharkov
Kharkov, Krasnooktyabrskaya, d. 90It only seems at first glance that we know everything about water. And what in it can be interesting? Flowing to himself and flowing. The Kharkov Water Museum refutes these conservative judgments. It turns out that you can talk about water for hours.
Museum of wax figures "At the woman of Uchi"
Odessa, Rishelyevskaya, d. 4The museum collection "Uty Baba" has more than 70 figures, among which there are historical and fairy-tale characters, "stars" of the theater, cinema and music.
Museum of outstanding Kharkov them. KI Shulzhenko
Kharkiv, Baikalsky pereulok, d. 1Kharkov is the hometown of the famous singer Claudia Shulzhenko. Therefore, it is no coincidence that the museum dedicated to her life and work appeared just here. There are several expositions in the museum that tell about the singer's creative path. One of the rooms completely reproduces the interior of her house.
Museum of ceramic tiles and sanitary engineering
Kharkov, Moscow avenue, 257Despite its not very expressive name (which can be interesting in sinks and mixers?), The museum acquaints visitors with interesting exhibits.
Museum of Cinema in Odessa
Odessa, French Boulevard, 33The Museum of Cinema is the story not only of the most important of the arts, but also of the city itself. For the inhabitants of Odessa these exhibits play a very large role. Here are stored the glove of Vera Kholodnaya, the hat and cloak of Vladimir Vysotsky, in which he played in the television series "The meeting place can not be changed", the collection of Alexander Dovzhenko's movie cameras.
The Cosmos Museum in Kharkov
Kharkov, per. Kravtsova, d. 15This museum is the first to open in Ukraine, dedicated to cosmonautics and ufology. To it it is possible to concern skeptically - a pier, newcomers do not exist. However, many people thought about the fact that we are still not alone in the universe after we looked into the museum.
Museum of Magnets in Lviv
Lviv, st. Serbskaya, d. 9Bring a magnet from the trip to the refrigerator - a sacred cause! In Lviv, a whole museum is dedicated to these souvenirs. Here are collected magnets, which are brought almost from all over the world.
Police Museum in Kharkov
Kharkov, Sovnarkomovskaya, 13Such museums can often be found in large cities. The Kharkov Police Museum has been working for 40 years and tells about the history of local law enforcement agencies.
Museum of one street in Kiev
Kiev, Andreevsky spusk, 2-BThe collection of the Museum of One Street is dedicated to the history of St. Andrew's descent and its outstanding inhabitants. A worthy place of the exposition is devoted to interesting cases, stories, and city bikes related to famous landowners and houses of Andreevsky spusk.
Arsenal Weapons Museum
Lviv, st. Podvalnaya, d. 5The city's arsenal in Lviv was built to defend the city in the 16th century. Made of stone, it adjoined the fortress, a two-story building was crowned by an octagonal tower.
Museum of beer in Lviv
Lviv, st. Kleparovskaya, 18The first museum of brewing that opened in Ukraine was opened in 2005 in honor of the anniversary of the founding of the Lviv Brewery, which was known throughout the country. It was a joke, they talked about Lviv beer in the 16th century.
Museum of post office in Lviv
Lviv, pl. Market, 2In this museum you can trace the actual development of all mail in Eastern Europe. The fact is that in Lviv such a service appeared one of the first. Some exhibits - more than four centuries.
The museum "Kiev Fortress" (more than seventeen thousand exhibits) presents visitors with historical values of Ukraine. This is the largest fortress, occupying the second place in the world in terms of fortifications. In the 19th century it was called the "New Pecherskaya Fortress", and a hundred years later, after the superfluous function was not needed, the fortress was renamed and opened a museum in it.
In the small picturesque town of Zolochiv, near Lviv, on Zamkova Street there is a museum-preserve "Zolochiv Castle", built in the Middle Ages. The castle was also a royal residence, a hospital, a prison, and a school, until the Lviv Gallery of Art began to dispose of it, and it became a museum. In the Great Patriotic War, about 700 prisoners were shot by fascists near the castle walls. Now there is a chapel on this place.
Among the many famous historical museums in Ukraine, open-air ethnographic museums are opened, which give the opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of the dear old man's heart and old life.
Museums in Ukraine - the most diverse subjects. They are dedicated to shipbuilding (Nikolaev Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet), brewing (Lviv Museum of Brewing), pharmacy (Lviv Pharmacy Museum), bells (Volyn Bell Museum), and in Kharkov there is a Museum of Sexual Cultures of the World. In general, in Ukraine there is no time to be bored. Wherever there are tourists in this country, they will always find what to do, how to have fun and with which museums to get acquainted.