The Khanenko Museum Play

The museum presents the most significant Ukrainian collections of Western European, Asian and ancient art. The core of the museum holdings is made up by the private collection of Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko, who were distinguished Ukrainian collectors of art and philanthropists of the late 19th – the early 20th centuries.

One of the two main museum buildings is the Khanenkos’ mansion, a unique monument of history and architecture. Built in the late 19th century, the house retains extraordinary spirit of the past. Its façade and interiors are designed in the “historicism” style implying the mixture of various historic features: gothic, Renaissance, baroque, rococo, etc.

The other museum building located nearby belonged up to 1918 to the family of Volodymyr and Efrosynia Sakhnovskis, close relatives of the Khanenkos. Today this building houses the permanent exhibition of Asian art.