On 24th May 2003, the opening ceremony of the Museum of Water (the Museum, for short) took place; the Museum was created on the basis of renovated ancient water towers constructed as early as in 1872–1876.
Now, it is a kind of a "research laboratory", where the main attention is directed at new approaches to ecology-related issues, experiments and models for demonstrations of possible change in water consumption and habits of the population. But apart from this there is a huge toilet bowl, artificial thunder and huge soap bubbles, each fitting a standing person.
The main exhibition of the Museum is situated underground. There are huge aquariums, an elevator to the underworld, a functioning model of the artesian well, a sewage collector, a grotto, etc. Visitors may also see how glaciers melt, how it rains and even how a volcano erupts. In general, the exhibition reflects the complete water cycle.
By seeing all these "aquawonders", visitors get introduced to water in a non-traditional way, to the process of water treatment and to methods of efficient water usage in everyday life.
For children, there is a playground. After having rolled up their sleeves, visitors may touch live fish that lives in huge aquasystems. And they may even divert a course of a river!
While travelling along sewage pipes with enormous rats, descending underground and blowing huge soap bubbles!
The main purpose of the Museum is to inform people about the hydrosphere of the Earth and about the water resources of Ukraine. To be more precise, about how vulnerable and indispensable for life they are. And also about technologies for producing healthy drinking water.
The Atelier Karas Gallery (the Gallery, for short) was opened in 1995. However, according to its director Yevgeny Karas, the idea of a gallery was conceived by his family, a family of artists, as early as in 1986. It was then when rooms were found for the future gallery.
The Union of Artists provided Yevgeny's parents with an entire building flo...
The Museum of One Street (the Museum, for short) is dedicated to the history of Andreyevsky Descent, the street known, due to a saying by Viktor Nekrasov, as "...the most Kievan street in Kiev". It is a private museum.
Two rooms of the Museum's permanent exhibition contain hundreds of authentic antiques: books, paintings, furniture and clothes, ...
Viacheslav Chornovil, a Hero of Ukraine, would be 65 years old on 24th December, 2002. This day, a museum was opened in his study situated in the building of People's Movement of Ukraine. The Museum has documents, photographs and personal things of the prominent journalist, politician, and fighter for independence of Ukraine.
The Museum expositi...
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