Tag: Museum

In 1976, in the picturesque Pyrohiv village neighborhood, the Open-Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Folk traditions of Ukraine was founded. This is a unique collection of folk architecture and artifacts of our ancestor’s daily life. Spread over ...

“Kyiv Shlisselburg” is the name our ancestors gave to this grim place in Pechersk, now a museum Pechersk Fortress. And they had every reason for that. In 1844, another hospital fortification was added to the Kyiv military fortress. This was known ...

Palanok or Mukachevo Castle is one of the oldest and most famous in Ukraine. When and who erected it is not known for sure, but already in the 11th century, there was a mountain of volcanic rock 68 m (223 ft) high and covering 14,000 m2 (150,000 ft2) ...

The Mikhail Bulgakov House Museum in Kyiv. In this fantastical house, as Mikhail A. Bulgakov himself described it, the Bulgakov family lived for 13 years (from 1906 to 1919). It was built according to the plan of a talented architect Nikolai Gordenin ...

The interesting history of Sugar Beets in Ukraine. It was only in 1747 that the German scientist Andreas Marggraf realized that sugar, which until then had been obtained only from sugarcane, is also contained in garden beets. Scientists quickly culti ...

Trypillia is the site of an ancient mega-settlement dating to 4300–4000 BCE. Surprisingly, thousands of years ago, at the turn of the Stone and Bronze Ages, on the territory of modern Ukraine there already existed mega-settlements for the time, so ...

Andriyivsky Descent, popularly known as the Montmartre of Kyiv. This is without a doubt one of Kyiv’s most popular streets – and one of its oldest too. In ancient times it linked the administrative part of the upper town – the city officials � ...