One Street Museum

The One Street Museum tells the story of a single street: Andriivskyi Descent, one of the oldest streets in Kyiv. Founded in 1991, it holds more than 7,000 exhibits about the Descent and its buildings, including Saint Andrew's Church and the castle of Richard Lionheart.

The displays bring together historical documents, manuscripts, autographs, antique postcards and photographs with many pieces of antique interior furnishing. Part of the collection is devoted to people who lived in the house at number 34 during the twentieth century, among them the philologist Pavlo Zhytetsky, the Arabist Taufik Kezma and the writer Hryhir Tiutiunnyk. Other memorabilia belonged to professors of the Kyiv Theological Academy and to local doctors.

A large collection of antique books includes a Trebnik of Metropolitan Peter Mogila, rare editions by professors and graduates of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and works by Mikhail Bulgakov published in his lifetime. In 2002 the museum was nominated for the European Museum Forum, the first Ukrainian museum to take part. It suits visitors interested in the street's past and in old books.