Must-see attractions in Kyiv

  • Ivan Honchar Museum

    Kyiv

    This Pechersk-based facility is more than a museum, it's a crucible for preserving Ukrainian folk culture in the 21st century. In addition to permanent…

  • Museum of Hetmanship

    Kyiv

    This small museum is devoted to Ukrainian hetmans, the military commanders of the Ukrainian Cossack State. Set in a stone house built at the beginning of…

  • Water Museum

    Kyiv

    The Dutch funded the launch of this museum inside a 1980s water pump, but it now operates independently. On the obligatory 45-minute tour (in English by…

  • Church of Mykola Prytysk

    Kyiv

    The Church of Mykola Prytysk survived the 1811 fire that destroyed much of Podil. This Ukrainian Orthodox church is the oldest structure in the district …

  • Taras Shevchenko Memorial House Museum

    Kyiv

    A beautifully restored, 19th-century wooden house where the man who dominates the Ukrainian literary pantheon once lived. You can see drawings he made on…

  • Chocolate House

    Kyiv

    This distinctive neo-Renaissance mansion in Kyiv's wealthy Lypky district, built in 1901, is notable for its lavish interiors. There's a small sculpture…

  • Dendropark Oleksandriya

    Kyiv

    Bila Tserkva’s wonderful Dendropark Oleksandriya is Ukraine's largest landscaped park. It's much bigger than Uman's more-heralded Sofiyivka Park, but it…

  • St Nicholas Naberezhny

    Kyiv

    Church lovers will find several attractive and historic specimens in Podil, including this 1863 church near the river, which is dedicated to sailors and…

  • Taras Shevchenko Museum

    Kyiv

    The huge and surprisingly glitzy Tarasa Shevchenka Museum, dedicated to Ukraine's national poet, prides itself on its interactive touchscreens, glass…

  • Pharmacy Museum

    Kyiv

    This museum is set in the premises of an early-19th-century German pharmacy. There are separate rooms dedicated to alchemy and witchcraft – all quite…

  • Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral

    Kyiv

    A beeswax candle's throw from pl Soborny is the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, which has a much more atmospheric interior than the rather plain 1830s…

  • Former Lenin Statue

    Kyiv

    At the terminus of vul Tarasa Shevchenka once stood Kyiv's last Lenin statue, famously pulled down and smashed to bits by Euromaidan protesters in late…

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Kyiv

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was built by the Soviets on the site of the Tryokhsvyatytelska Church, one of Kyiv's holiest edifices, destroyed by Stalin…

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