• Українська
  • Русский
  • English
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

LEISURE BULLETIN

August 20-26
19 August, 2013 - 18:19
Wunjo-Art Gallery. August 20-September 10. NATALIA NETRONINA’S KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS AND SHADOWS. A SMALL FISH / Photo courtesy of the Wunjo-Art Gallery

Dolphinariums

Nemo Dolphinarium
(Ice rink, vul. Hlushkova 9)

20-31 – Spectacular Daily Show.
Beginning at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.
on Tues.-Fr.; at noon, 3 p.m. and
6 p.m. on Sat., Sun. Romantic Night Show. Beginning at 9:30 p.m. on Sat.

Museums

Kyiv Pechersk National Historical and Cultural Preserve
(vul. Lavrska 21)

Standing exhibits: Mykola Siadrysty (microminiatures)
Open 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Kyiv Sophia National Museum
(vul. Volodymyrska 24)

Aug. 20-Oct. 20 – In
commemoration of
the 1,025th anniversary
of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’. Raphael Zaborowsky, Metropolitan
of Kyiv, Galicia [Halychyna], and all Ruthenia (1731-47) (documents,
letters, scrolls); Ukrainian Icon,
16th-18th cc. (Baroque icon painting)
Aug. 20-Dec. 31 – Liudmyla
Meshkova (ceramic panels)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wed.

National Museum of Ukrainian History
(vul. Volodymyrska 2)

Aug. 20-Nov. 11 – 1,000-year-old Ukrainian Seal (international
museum project)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Wed.

Chornobyl National Museum
(provulok Khoryva 1)

20-31 – Prypiat: Poetic Excavation (exhibition of Norwegian artists)
Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m.;
10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sat., Sun.

National Art Museum
(vul. Hrushevskoho 6)

Aug. 20-Sep. 8 – Art of the 1960s
to early 2000s: Race Against Time (paintings, prints, sculpture,
and photos)
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 Ukrainian Literature
(vul. Khmelnytskoho 11)

20-31 – Literary and artistic exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka’s death
20-31 – In commemoration of
the 1,025th anniversary of
the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’.
“Bless the Lord, O My Soul…”
(literary and artistic exhibit)
Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.;
10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sat.
Closed Sun.

Taras Shevchenko National Museum
(blvd. Shevchenko 12)

Aug. 20-Oct.4 – The Past Saved
for the Future: Revived National
Historical and Cultural Relics
(paintings and prints)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed Mon.

Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Art Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 15-17)

Aug. 20-Sep. 22 – For the first time in Kyiv! Daniel Chodowiecki
(etchings from the collection of
the Kharkiv Art Museum)
Aug. 20-Oct. 20 – Rockwell Kent (paintings from the museum
collection)
Open 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Closed Mon., Tues.

Russian Art Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 9)

20-31 – In commemoration of
the 1,025th anniversary of
the Baptism of Kyivan Rus’.
Treasures of Orthodoxy
(icons from the museum’s and
private collections)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Tues., Fri. Closed Mon., Thurs.

Memorial Museums

Maksym Rylsky Memorial Museum
(vul. Rylskoho 7)

20-29 – Exhibit in commemoration
of the 105th anniversary of Leonid Pervomaisky’s birth
20-31 – Exhibit in commemoration
of the centenary of Natan Rybak’s birth
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Mikhail Bulgakov Literary and Memorial Museum
(Andriivsky uzviz 13)

Aug. 20-Nov. 21 – Bulgakov Family Dacha in Bucha (photos, posters,
letters, documents)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Wed.

Ivan Honchar Museum
(vul. Ivana Mazepy 29)

Aug. 20-Sep. 29 – We Are In Love,
My Darling! (love themes
in Ukrainian folk art)
Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Closed Mon.

Galleries

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.

Mystetsky Arsenal
(vul. Lavrska 12)

Aug. 20-Sep. 22 –  In
commemoration of the 1,025th anniversary of the Baptism of
Kyivan Rus’. Great and Grand
(1,000 exemplary works from
the collection of 35 major
museums in Ukraine)
Open 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Parsuna
(vul. Khoryva 43)

Standing exhibit of author’s dolls
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sat. Closed Sun.

Wunjo-Art
(vul. Voloska, 36/38)

Aug. 20-Sep. 10 – Natalia Netronina (paintings on velvet)
Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sat.; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sun.

Culture Centers

The Chocolate House
(vul. Shovkovychna 17/2)
Aug. 20-Sep. 1 – In conjunction
with Ukrainian Independence Day. Iryna Borodiuk (the blind artist’s
pictures made of artificial flowers)
Open 11 a.m.-6 a.m.
Closed Tues., Thurs.

The House of Nature
(vul. Rohnidynskа 3)

Aug. 21-Sep. 21 – Mother Nature Comes Alive in Verse (in
commemoration of the 200th
anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth)
Open noon-18 p.m.
Closed Sun., Mon.

Kyiv Planetarium

Aug. 20-Sep. 19 – Fashion Museum (ancient ladies’ clothes and
accessories from Maryna Ivanova’s collection)
Open 10 a.m.-9 a.m.

Rubric: