Natural-science museum

The Museum of Natural History is a unified complex comprising 5 museums: the Geological, Paleontological, Zoological, Botanical, and Archaeological.

Museums was established in 1966. It is located in the heart of Kiev, in an antique mansion with expressive and remarkable architecture.

More than 30 thousand specimens which are exhibited in 24 halls occupying 8 thousand square meters illustrate the origin, structure and evolution of the Earth, its plant and animal life, its past and present, the history of the material culture of the tribes and peoples that inhabited the territory of Ukraine. The central place in the museums is occupied by a complex of dioramas: 30 landscape expositions and biogroups.