Boom Bang-a-Bang (1969)
This museum is quite surprising because it manages to combine creativity with a very grim tale of the world's worst nuclear accident.
The National Chernobyl Museum http://chornobylmuseum.kiev.ua/en/mainpage/ is based aptly in a former 19thC firestation at Khoryv Lane 1, near Kontraktova Ploscha metro station.
The museum is rare in that it provides headphone guides in several languages that tell you the story of the disaster as you walk around the rooms.
Here you will meet the people who first raised the alarm and the many who volunteered and paid the ultimate price in saving much of Europe.
Personal effects of those involved in the rescue mission brings the experience to life.
The museum is open Monday-Saturday 10.00-18.00.
The disaster happened 31 years ago, just 60 km outside of Kyiv.
A diorama shows the power plant as it was, replicates the explosion that left fires for 8 days and what it looked like afterwards.
In the last five years the 30 square kilometre exclusion zone has been opened up to controlled tourism.
In the 1980s the recovery programme almost bankrupt the former Soviet Union, and led to the country opening up to the world.
The rooms are highly creative and use colour, sculpture, photography, design and unusual layouts. The emphasis is on the people who have been most affected by the disaster, and is a very human experience.
Blame for the disaster is pointed at the Soviet system, where constructors stole building materials, or used cheaper materials than planned in order to make money on the side. Their combined shortcuts had a devastating impact.
Nuclear Exposure
KYIV DESTINATION: The Chernobyl museum
This museum is quite surprising because it manages to combine creativity with a very grim tale of the world's worst nuclear accident.
The National Chernobyl Museum http://chornobylmuseum.kiev.ua/en/mainpage/ is based aptly in a former 19thC firestation at Khoryv Lane 1, near Kontraktova Ploscha metro station.
The museum is rare in that it provides headphone guides in several languages that tell you the story of the disaster as you walk around the rooms.
Here you will meet the people who first raised the alarm and the many who volunteered and paid the ultimate price in saving much of Europe.
Personal effects of those involved in the rescue mission brings the experience to life.
The museum is open Monday-Saturday 10.00-18.00.
The disaster happened 31 years ago, just 60 km outside of Kyiv.
A diorama shows the power plant as it was, replicates the explosion that left fires for 8 days and what it looked like afterwards.
In the last five years the 30 square kilometre exclusion zone has been opened up to controlled tourism.
In the 1980s the recovery programme almost bankrupt the former Soviet Union, and led to the country opening up to the world.
The rooms are highly creative and use colour, sculpture, photography, design and unusual layouts. The emphasis is on the people who have been most affected by the disaster, and is a very human experience.
Blame for the disaster is pointed at the Soviet system, where constructors stole building materials, or used cheaper materials than planned in order to make money on the side. Their combined shortcuts had a devastating impact.
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