The National Chornobyl Museum

In Kiev, at the Podolsk fire station, a museum-monument "Five" Chernobyl ", dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The exposition includes over 7000 exhibits, including declassified documents, relics from the exclusion zone, photos. In addition, all visitors to the museum is available "memory book liquidators of the Chernobyl accident", which tells the story of every person who has suffered vnaslidokChornobylskoyi disaster.  

National Museum "Chernobyl" was founded in 1992. Initiated its creation were NGOs Kyiv and service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The room also was not chosen by chance. Architectural monument of the 20th century - house fire - specially reconstructed for museum memory "Chernobyl".

The museum exposition is based on characters and moral teachings, and each piece - a striking emotional element that warns of the consequences of human irresponsibility and indifference. The central exhibit is a way of uprooted apple tree - a symbol of wealth and prosperity. Along the road - signs that tell about the 76 settlements that have been erased from the life of man-caused disaster. And over his head - Squadrons of Church of St. John the Divine, which was also destroyed.

Also in the museum you will see a small boat - imitation of Noah's Ark filled with children's toys as a reminder of the possibility of escape and draw conclusions from history. The center attracts glance iconostasis. His pieces brought from the Temple of the Resurrection, located in the exclusion zone. Near the iconostasis you see frozen figures liquidators in protective suits and respirators. On the iconostasis - image of two angels - black and white as a symbol of evil and good. White angel protects children born immediately after the disaster, and under the wings black - our controversial today.

How to prevent a possible disaster, the museum is open to view world map with flickering dots, telling the modern location of nuclear plants in different countries.

The museum also presents a video of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the emergence of "shelter" and "memory book liquidators of the Chernobyl accident" , which listed the names of more than five thousand liquidators.

Is the National Museum "Chernobyl" in Kiev lane Horev, 1 can reach it by public transport or traveling to the metro station "Marketplace".