National Museum “Chornobyl”

The National Museum "Chornobyl" is a departmental museum and one of Ukraine's flagship museums. Its important mission is to present Ukraine and Ukrainians, who have the ability to recover and grow stronger after deep historical upheavals. The museum is located in Podil, the historic part of Kyiv, on the site of the local archaeological monument "Cultural layer of Podil, 9th–18th centuries", the landscape and history monument "Historical landscape of the Kyiv hills and the Dnipro valley" (3rd–2nd millennium BC – 11th–19th centuries) and within the State Historical and Architectural Preserve "Ancient Kyiv". The museum building, the former "Fire Station", is listed among the cultural heritage sites of Kyiv. The museum is unique in that it alone in Kyiv and Ukraine can give visitors the fullest account of the development of nuclear power in Ukraine, the history of the construction and operation of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the 1986 accident and the clean-up of its consequences, as well as historical and ethnographic objects and religious relics of Chornobyl Polissia.