Early Byzantine Sinai icons from the 6th and 7th centuries, shown in a room of their own, are among the rarest works at the Khanenko Museum, which holds Ukraine's largest and most valuable collections of European, Asian and Ancient art. At its core is the collection of Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko, collectors and philanthropists of the late 19th and early 20th century. The museum was founded in 1919 under Bohdan's will and a deed of gift Varvara signed in 1918.
The Khanenkos' late 19th-century mansion on Tereshchenkivska Street displays European fine and decorative arts from the 14th to the 18th century. Among them are works by Rubens, Gentile Bellini, Juan de Zurbarán, Jacques-Louis David and François Boucher, alongside European sculpture. Ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian art fills the first floor. A nearby house that belonged to the Sakhnovskys, the family's close relatives, has four rooms of Asian art devoted to Buddhism, Islam, China and Japan.
Of more than 25,000 items, nearly a thousand are on permanent display.
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