Art Museum named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko (Kiev Museum of
Western and Oriental Arts)
The museum is located in the building specially built as a museum by architect Melzer in 1887. The basis of museum collection was the collection of Bogdan Ivanovich (1849-1917) and Varvara Nikolaevna (1852-1922) Khanenko. In 1917 their private collection was passed as a gift to City of Kiev. The collection of the museum has been made bigger more than 13 times in subsequent years as the result of the incorporation of some other private collections. There are around 2,000 exhibits in the halls of the museum. Art Museum named after famous Ukrainian patrons of arts Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko (Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Arts) is famous as the largest collection of European and Oriental Arts in Ukraine.