Museum of Western and Oriental Art

The Museum of Art is the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine.nCurrently, the Museum is well-known both Ukraine-wide and abroad for its unique collection of paintings, sculptures, etchings, decorative arts of Western Europe, Middle and Far East as well as the Antiquity.nThe incomplete list of its holdings includes the West European paintings, Egyptian and Classical antiquity, Italian Maiolica, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Japanese xylography and tsubas, Chinese paintings and Chinese porcelain. nShortly after death of Bogdan Khanenko on December 15, 1918 his widow Varvara gave away the entire collection to the city of Kiev as a charitable gift. Throughout the years the collection has increased from 1,250 to over 17,000 artworks, totaling over 25,000 exhibits.