Holodomor Genocide Museum

This museum is well done and it seemed very important to us to learn about this tragedy which isn't well known. Note: the museum is under the monument, and can look closed even when it's open. Don't hesitate to go down the stairs and try to get in.

The museum is underground with a large monument that has a bell that tolls constantly for each life lost in the Genocide. This alone is haunting but when you go into the museum and read the stories or listen to the videos it is so heartbreaking to think that humans could do such terrible things to eachother . The museum is very cheap but so informative and interesting,well worth a visit.

National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Ukrainian: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду),[2] formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a world-class centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008 and gained the status of a national museum in 2010. The museum is located on the Pechersk Hills on the right bank of the Dnieper river in Kyiv, adjacent to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. On 28 November 2006, the Parliament of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada) voted to recognize the Holodomor, a devastating famine which took place in the early 1930s in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.[3] The bill was signed into law by President Viktor Yushchenko and included a provision for commemorative and research activities, and the construction of memorials to honour the victims and preserve the memory of the Holodomor tragedy for future generations. The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine was erected on the slopes of the Dnieper river in 2008, welcoming its first visitors on 22 November 2008.[4] The ceremony of the memorial's opening was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor. On 8 July 2009, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine signed a decree that established a state museum "The Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine". The museum subsequently acquired the status of a national museum on 18 February 2010.[4] Starting from February 2010, the museum has been included in the official program for visits to Ukraine by Heads of States and foreign delegations and officials.[5] On 31 July 2015, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine renamed the museum in order to reflect the singular instance of the famine-genocide known as Holodomor. Prior to this, the museum, which represents three famines – the 1921-1923 famine, the 1932-1933 famine, and the 1946-1947 famine – used the term 'Holodomor' as a plural term. The plural has been removed in order to offset the understanding of the Holodomor being the 1932-1933 famine as being exclusively deemed to be genocidal in nature.[2][6]

Small, but very interesting.

Cash only so didn't get to go inside. Looks like all the displays were in Ukrainian though. Displays looked well curated.