National Museum of the History of Ukraine
History museum of some 800,000 objects, from Scythian masterpieces to medieval coins.
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This guide to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kyiv follows the money behind the museum itself, from a medieval prince's marked coins to the sugar fortune of the Tereshchenko family at the end of the nineteenth century. It meets Bohdan Khanenko, a collector married into that fortune, and the townspeople who chipped in for a building that opened before it was finished. Listen from the entrance on Volodymyrska Street.
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