Virtual Tours of Ukraine

June 26, 2020

Google Ukraine in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine launched a new cultural project Authentic Ukraine, providing virtual tours of Ukrainian museums, opera houses, and wooden churches.

 

 

 

 

Take a virtual tour of the following biggest open-air museums of folk art and architecture in Ukraine:

  • Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Residence (Chyhyryn, Cherkasy oblast)
  • Mamaieva Sloboda (Kyiv)
  • Museum of Folk Art and Architecture in Serednia Naddniprianschyna (Pereiaslav-Kmhelnytskyj, Kyiv oblast)
  • National Museum of Folk Art and Architecture of Ukraine (Pyrohovo, Kyiv)
  • National Museum of Folk Art and Architecture “Shevchenkivskyi Hai” (Lviv)
  • National Museum of Folk Art and Architecture (Uzhgrorod)
  • Zaporizka Sich (Zaporizhzhia)

You can also get a panoramic view of the following Ukrainian opera houses:

  • Chernivtsi Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Olha Kobylianska
  • Kyiv National Academic Operetta Theater
  • Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Krushelnytska
  • National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko
  • Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater

We also invite you on a virtual tour of eight wooden churches of the Carpathian region placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List:

  •     Church of Our Lord’s Ascension, Yasinya, Rakhiv district, Transcarpathian oblast
  •     Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Potelych, Zhovkva district, Lviv oblast
  •     Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Rohatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
  •     Church of the Holy Trinity, Zhovkva, Lviv oblast
  •     Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nyzhnii Verbizh, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
  •     Church of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael, Uzhok, Velykoberezniakivskyi district, Transcarpathian oblast
  •     Church of Saint George, Drohobych, Lviv oblast
  •     Church of the Synaxis of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Matkiv, Turka district, Lviv oblast

In addition, you might go on a virtual tour of several museums produced by the Ukrainian newspaper Den within the framework of the project Ukraine Incognita in 2011.

By Olena Nikolayenko, chair of the communications committee