Chocolate House (House Mogilevtseva)

Chocolate House - a favorite place of locals and visitors alike. It got its name due to the design and color of the facade - it really resembles the structure of the product of the chocolate.

House of Chocolate - a two-storey mansion Kyiv merchant Seeds Mogilevtseva. It was built in the early 20th century with elements of Renaissance palace architecture, the author of the project - Vladimir Nikolayev. Interiors rooms are made ​​in a variety of architectural styles are represented here Baroque (White Hall), a modernist, Renaissance, Russian, Moorish and other styles. The walls and ceiling of the Chocolate House stucco, frescoes, Venetian mirrors, windows - beautiful stained glass windows.

In Soviet times, there is a central registry office of Kiev, then moved Children`s Art Gallery, and in 2009 the house was transferred into the possession of the Kiev Museum of Russian Art. Restoration work was done, tidied the walls, moldings, flooring and in the history of chocolate at home, a new stage . Today it hosts a permanent exhibition of children`s paintings, art history lectures are held evenings of classical music.

In Chocolate House offers tours. If you are going to visit the house, come in from 11:00 to 18:30. Closed - Monday and Thursday. Nearby, on the street Shelkovichnoe, is no less interesting building - House Ikskyul-Gildenbanda .