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