Pyrohiv Open-Air MuseumUkraine’s largest open-air museum: some 300 authentic cottages, wooden churches, windmills and watermills from every region, spread over 133 hectares of hills and oak woods in southern Kyiv.
National Chornobyl MuseumA museum of the 1986 disaster housed in an old Podil fire station — from declassified files and liquidators' belongings to its partial destruction by a Russian missile in 2026.
Kyiv Planetarium: History and What to SeeOne of Europe's largest planetariums, the Kyiv Planetarium has shown the stars to visitors since 1952. Discover its history, its giant dome and what to see.
Kyiv Fortress Museum: History of the Pechersk FortificationsThe Kyiv Fortress grew from a 17th-century stronghold in Pechersk into a vast system of forts and casemates. Explore its history and the National Kyiv Fortress Museum.
Water Museum in Kyiv: Water Information CenterKyiv's Water Museum fills a 19th-century waterworks with aquariums, a giant toilet and an indoor thunderstorm. Learn about its history and its seven exhibition zones.
Museum of the Hetmanate in Kyiv: The Mazepa House in PodilHoused in a late 17th-century building known as Mazepa's house in Podil, Kyiv's Museum of the Hetmanate preserves relics of the Cossack era and Ukraine's hetmans.
Museum of the Main Astronomical Observatory in KyivFounded in 1944 in Holosiiv, Ukraine's Main Astronomical Observatory has a museum of astronomy, expedition finds and a demonstration telescope for stargazing visitors.
Museum of Kyiv History: From Podil to Bohdana Khmelnytskoho StreetThe Museum of Kyiv History tells the city's story from Kyivan Rus to modern times. Learn how the museum was founded, moved several times and what its collection holds.
Kyiv Museums: Toilet History MuseumOne of the first and largest museums devoted to the most important piece of plumbing in anyone's life, the toilet. It began by chance: in 1995 friends of Mykola Bohdanenko jokingly gave him a souvenir toilet when he opened his plumbing shop. Nobody expected that one toilet would spark such an interest, and by November 2010 his collection had entered the National Register of Records of Ukraine as…
Kyiv Metro Museum: The Story of the City's SubwayDiscover the Kyiv Metro Museum: three halls of photos, documents, train models, rare tickets and a working depot model that tell the story of the city's subway.
Lesia Ukrainka Museum in Kyiv: The Kosach Family HomeVisit the Lesia Ukrainka Museum in Kyiv, the Kosach family home where the great Ukrainian poet lived, with her study, manuscripts, rare books and family heirlooms.
Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine in KyivFounded in 1923, the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra holds over 226,000 items, from 1816 playbills to folk instruments.
Sholem Aleichem Museum in Kyiv: Life of a Yiddish ClassicThe Sholem Aleichem Museum in Kyiv tells the story of the great Yiddish writer, his Kyiv years and Jewish culture, in the building where he once lived.
Experimentanium Kyiv: Hands-On Science Museum for All AgesExperimentanium in Kyiv is a hands-on science museum with over 250 interactive exhibits, Tesla and chemistry shows, laser mazes and a tornado machine for kids.
Taras Shevchenko Memorial House Museum in KyivVisit the 1835 house in central Kyiv where Taras Shevchenko lived in 1846-47: the first Shevchenko museum, with his recreated room, studio and cherry orchard.
PinchukArtCentreA private contemporary art centre at Besarabka, opened in 2006: shows by international and Ukrainian artists, the Future Generation Art Prize, and free admission.
Motherland MonumentA 102-metre steel statue above the Dnipro, with the trident on her shield, and the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War at her feet.
Holodomor Genocide MuseumUkraine's national memorial to the victims of the 1932–1933 Holodomor on the slopes by the Lavra: the 30-metre Candle of Memory, the girl with ears of wheat and the Alley of Black Boards.
Mystetskyi ArsenalA late-18th-century fortress arsenal built on the site of Mazepa's mother's convent, now Ukraine's flagship exhibition venue and home of the Book Arsenal festival.
National Art Museum of UkraineKyiv's first public museum, in Horodetskyi's Neoclassical building with lions by the steps, and the fullest collection of Ukrainian art, from 12th-century icons to the avant-garde.
State Toy Museum in Kyiv: A Trip Back to ChildhoodThe State Toy Museum in Kyiv holds some 15,000 toys, from a 19th-century doll to a vintage steam engine model, tracing a century of Ukrainian toymaking.
Kyiv Firefighting Museum: Vintage Fire Engines in ObolonThe Firefighting Museum in Kyiv's Obolon shows horse-drawn water carts, steam pumps and rare vintage fire engines, all restored and ready to prove they still work.
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