National Historical Museum of Ukraine

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National Historical Museum of Ukraine
Nazionalnyj musej istoriji Ukrajiny
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The museum 2015
Data
place Kiev , Ukraine
Art
architect Iossif Karakis
opening May 1944
Number of visitors (annually) 400,000
management
Tetiana Sosnovska
Website

The National Historical Museum of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Національний музей історії України ; Nazionalnyj musej istoriji Ukrajiny / Russian Национальный музей истории Украины ) is the leading historical Museum of Ukraine in Kiev .

location

The museum is located in the Upper Town (or Old Kiev / Old Town), the oldest part of Kiev, on Volodymyrska Street 2 in Shevchenko Raion . The Andreas Church and the Andreassteig to Podil are located near the museum .

history

The listed museum building was built between 1937 and 1939 by the Soviet architect Iossif Karakis and was originally intended to house the art school. In the 1940s, the Museum of Art and Antiquities , which had been in existence since August 1899, moved here and started operations in May 1944. In 1950 the museum was renamed the Kiev State Historical Museum, and in 1965 the State Historical Museum of the Ukrainian SSR . In 1991 the museum was given its current name.

collection

The museum's collection includes more than 800,000 exhibits from antiquity to the present day, including from the areas of ethnography , archeology , paintings and sculptures, coin collections and historical book printing.

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Web links

Commons : National Historical Museum of Ukraine  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Official website of the museum ; last accessed on March 25, 2014 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ http://www.nmiu.com.ua/index.php/pro-muzei/departamenty
  3. ↑ Description of the museum on liveinternet.ru ; last accessed on March 25, 2014 (Russian)
  4. ^ Günther Schäfer: Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr . In: City guide (=  Trescher series of trips ). 3. Edition. Trescher Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89794-181-6 , pp. 67 ([ limited preview in Google Book search]).
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Panorama with the Historical Museum on the left and St. Andrew's Church on the right in the picture