LEISURE BULLETIN

Dolphinariums

Nemo Dolphinarium
(Ice Stadium, vul. Hlushkova 9)

12-31 – Daytime Show
(noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.);
Nighttime Show (Sat. 21:30)

Museums

Kyiv Pechersk National Historical and Cultural Preserve
(vul. Lavrska 9)

Aug.12-Sep.15 – Artist Ivan Yizhakevych: “I want to be useful to the Lavra Monastery”
(in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth)
Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra History Museum
(vul. Lavrska 9, bld.3)

Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Kyiv Sophia National Museum
(vul. Volodymyrska 24)

12-15 – “Kyiv Chrysostom Ioan Levanda” (in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Archpriest Ioan Levanda’s death)
12-31 – “Foundation” (Ukrainian antiquities)
Aug.12-Sep.30 – “The Truth about the Crimea” (paintings and prints)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wed.

National Museum of Ukrainian History
(vul. Volodymyrska 2)

Aug.12-Nov.17 – 1,000th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Seal (international museum project)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Wed.

Chornobyl National Museum
(provulok Khoryva 1)

Aug.12-Oct.1 – First time in Ukraine. A Prayer for Fukushima: Two Years after the Disaster (photos and artifacts from Japan)
Aug.12-Oct.1 – Kateryna Pyrozhkova (photos)
Aug.12-Oct.1 – “Unexpected Preserve: Chornobyl Exclusion Zone through a Taxidermist’s Eyes” (photos and taxidermic items on display)
Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sat., Sun.

Kyiv Fortress National Museum
(vul. Hospitalna, 24а)

12-15 – In commemoration of the Ukrainian Peacekeeper’s Day. “Seeing is Believing” (authentic documents, samples of military equipment and combat fatigues, military decorations, memorial signs, photos)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

National Museum of Science and Natural History
(vul. Bohdana Khmelnytskoho 15)

12-31 – “Living Guinness Records” (200 plant and animal species entered into Guinness World Records)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon., Tues.

National Art Museum
(vul. Hrushevskoho 6)

Aug.12-Sep.21 – Anatolii Sumar (paintings)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; noon-8 p.m. on Fri.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sat.
Closed Mon., Tues.

National Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life
(village of Pyrohiv)

Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Taras Shevchenko National Museum
(blvd. Shevchenko 12)

Aug.12-15 – “The Light of Heavenly Sotnia” (photos)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Mon.

National Russian Art Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 9)
12-31 – “In a Single Space” (works
of art of the 1940s-1960s)
12-31 – “Our Crimea” (Crimea in the modern Ukrainian art)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Tues., Fri.
Closed Mon., Thurs.

Memorial Museums

Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum
(provulok T. Shevchenka 8a)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Fri.

Lesia Ukrainka Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 97)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Tues.

Mykola Lysenko Memorial Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 95)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Mykhailo Starytsky Memorial House Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 93)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum
(vul. Pankivska 9)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Maksym Rylsky Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Rylskoho 7)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Fri.

Pavlo Tychyna Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 5)

Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Ivan Honchar Museum
(vul. Ivana Mazepy 29)

Aug.12-Sep.1 – “The Warrior”
(folk paintings and icons)
Aug.12-Sep.1 – Exposition of Ukrainian Rushnyk Embroidered Towels
Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Closed
Mon.

House in Priorka
(vul. Vyshhorodska 5)

12-26 – “My Fairytale Childhood”
(an exhibition of works by members
of the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky Center of Children’s Creativity)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Sun., Mon.

Galleries

Brucie Collection
(vul. Artema 55b)
Aug.12-17 – Steve McCurry (photos, US)
Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sat.; noon-5 p.m. on Sun.

Hapchynska
(vul. Mykhailivska 16)

Standing exhibit of Yevhenia Hapchynska’s paintings
Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; noon-6 p.m.
 on Sat., Sun.

Mystets
(vul. Velyka Vasylkivska 12)

Aug.12-20 – “Art. Truth. Virtue. Patience.” (International project)
Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sat. Closed Sun.

Tsekh
(vul. Frunze 60)

Aug.12-Sep.1 – Rustam Mirzoev’s project
Open 2 p.m.-8 p.m.
Closed Sun., Mon.

Ya Gallery
(vul. Khoryva 49b)

Aug.12-16 – Yevhen Ravsky (paintings)
Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.