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KIEV MUSEUMS: Museum of Western and Oriental Art Museum of historical treasures Natural history museum National art museum of Ukraine
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Address: Bogdan Khmelnitskiy street, 15 Tel.: +38(044) 235 01 85, +38(044) 234 52 98 Working hours: from 10:00 till 17:00, days off — Monday, Tuesday How to get: go to metro station Theatralnaya, go out to Bogdan Khmelnitskiy street; or go to metro station Golden Gate and go upwards Vladimirskaya street to Bogdan Khmelnitskiy street
Natural History Museum of NAS is the several museums united into one complex. In 1966 in Kiev downtown, in old building a museum was opened, it collected together exhibits, belonging to different spheres of natural history. In 8 000 m2 museum’s territory, there are more than 30 000 various exhibits, representing the history of animal and vegetable kingdom development on Earth, planet’s geological evolution and also material evidences of culture development of people inhabited Ukraine territory. At the building’s basement floor Archaeological Museum, consisting of 4 halls, is situated. More than 7 000 exhibits tell us about the most considerable stages in the history of mankind development, beginning from Lithic Age to the late Middle Ages. Age of the most ancient objects in this museum numbers more than 800 000 years, they are the first material evidences of the human activity, found in site Korolevo in Zakarpate. Gests of Archaeological Museum can see things, made by people of Upper Paleolith (about 15 000 years ago), study collection of objects of Tripol, Scythian, Cimmerian and Sarmatian cultures.
At ground floor there is Geological Museum. Collection of Geological museum was started in 1927 and became a part of National History Museum after its foundation. Great work on creation of Museum collection was made by outstanding geologists Bezborodko, Luchitsky and Tutkovsky. Museum funds store more than 50 000 pieces of rocks and minerals, and also fossil flora and fauna. Second floor of Natural History museum is devoted to paleontology. First exhibits of this museum appeared in 1919. Later, in 1935, academician Pidoplichko, having systemized and having supplemented those materials, opened a separate paleontological exposition in Zoological museum. In museum halls more than 2000 exhibits are exposed, most of them were collected in Ukraine territory. Altogether about 1 million of exhibits are stored in Museums of Paleontology fund. Visitors of Museum show a special interest in reconstructed skeletons of fossil mammoths’ bones. Huge losses were incurred by Museum of Paleontology in January, 2006, when hot water flooded the halls of Museum of Paleontology and Geological Museum because of heater break. The point is that building heating facilities wasn’t changed and repaired fundamentally for 70 years. Invaluable unique exhibits were lost as a result. Giraffe skull, aged 7 million years, ancient deer skull and also rare collections of monographs were destroyed. Incident drew a wide response and UNESCO offered help to liquidate the consequences.
Zoological museum, located at 3 floor, was found in 1919. In this museum there are more than 5 000 exhibits of animals belonging to 4 000 animal kinds. In Museum there are two halls: hall of mammals and hall of birds. Botanical Museum, which is located at 4 floor, also has considerable history. The museum was opened by SAS of Ukraine in 1921, and till 1966 it was located in the territory of Institute of Botany of M.G.Holodniy. In Museum there are five halls, their total area is 1400 m2. Special pride of Botanical Museum is the unique method of volume drying developed by its workers. Owing to this technology, plant natural form remains during drying.
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