Mykola Siadrystyi Micro Miniatures Museum — Attraction in Kyiv

Within the Kiev Pechersk Lavra complex is a museum for the artist Mykola Syadristy.

All of Syadristy’s works fit into a single room.

And that’s because they’re miniscule and require microscopes to see them.

Only then will you realise how complicated these pieces are, like a chessboard on the head of a pin, or the smallest book in the world at no more than 0.6 square millimetres.

The artist’s sense of imagination is also made plain in microscopic works like a poppy seed turned into a bird’s nest or a flea wearing a pair of...

Here one can enter a small room with space age designs and look at the artworks through microscopes. There one might see a rose placed inside a human hair hollowed and polished like glass. Or perhaps a 3mm long model ship, or a caravan of golden camels passing through the eye of a needle? There you may see a chess set smaller than the head of the pin on which it sits and a flea shod with minute golden horseshoes. Photography is not permitted, but due to the miniscule scale of the exhibits, not much would be...

We went here because we were already at the Lavra and the reviews for this museum were all very intriguing and mysterious. While everything people wrote about is technically there(tiny gold chessboard on the head of a pin, etc), be aware that the museum is just one small room with maybe 12 examples of these micro miniature items. I guess it was fun to look at them, especially if you're already there, but it's a bit hard to understand why this museum has such...