The One Street Museum is a museum on Andriyivskyy Descent in Kiev, Ukraine. It houses many of the historic items of the descent, containing more than 7000 exhibits. They include information about the Saint Andrew's Church, the castle of Richard Lionheart, and the many other buildings of the Descent. The museum hosts historical documents, manuscripts, autographs, antique postcards, photos, and a great number of objects of the antique interior. Also, the museum has a collection of various works by Ukrainian philologist P. Zhitetsky, Arabist and professor of the Kiev University T. Kezma, journalist and public figure A. Savenko, and Ukrainian writer G. Tyutyunnyk, who all lived in the house at number 34 during the twentieth century. Another part of the museum collection is the memorabilia of professors of Kiev Theological Academy A. Bulgakov, S. Golubev, P. Kudryavtsev, F. Titov, A. Glagolev; doctors Th. Janovsky and D. Popov, and other prominent local figures.
The museum also has a large collection of antique books, including a Trebnik of the Metropolitan of Kiev Peter Mogila, rare editions of works written by professors and graduates of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, books written by M. Grabovsky, the Defender of Orthodoxy, A. Muravyov, and the works of Mikhail Bulgakovpublished in his lifetime.
In 2002 the One Street Museum became a nominee for European Museum Forum – an international organization under the auspices of the Council of Europe and under the patronage of Queen Fabiola of Belgium. It was the first and only museum of Ukraine participating in...
Read moreIt’s hard not to be enchanted by Andriyivskyy Descent, and all the stories associated with this famous street.
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The museum has been cleverly designed to recreate the atmosphere of the street at the dawn of the 20th century.
There are more than 7,000 exhibits in the showcases, and it’s a crazy miscellany of artefacts, from vintage postcards to sketches, antique Bulgakov editions, photographs, costumes, tableware, newspaper cuttings and antique typewriters.
There are insights about the noteworthy people who have lived on the street, the history of St Andrew’s Church, and the castle built by Richard the Lionheart that once...
Read moreAbsolutely a MUST SEE museum!!! Highly recommended for the essence of content. Great for girls as there are many dresses!
Lots n lots of materials squeezed on a small area, you can feel like going back in time with all the artifacts n music... 19th century world at your fingertips... for children n adults!
Not much information to read, just interesting objects, surprising objects, authentic real life objects!!!
Even if you have 15 minutes only it is good to visit, you should absolutely visit this amazing amazing place!!!
Very creative! But normally 1 hour or maximum 2 hours for all should be enough. 50 hrywnas in 2021 for adults if I...
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