Adults

Weekend guided tour of museum is a “low cost” museum offer. Every Saturday and Sunday at the scheduled time you can join guided tours through with permanent exhibitions of: European art and early Byzantine icons (Saturday, 12:00); The Art of Asia (Sunday, 12:00).

Please note: Groups are mixed and forms of visitors who came to the museum at the start of the tour.

In our museum we have prepared a special program for pensioners. Every second Wednesday of every month, the Khanenko Museum invites retirees to visit our museum for a free excursion. You need to register for the Second Wednesday excursion in advance, the registration is made from the first working day of the month.

On the second Friday of every month, the Khanenko Museum holds free-of-charge tours for people living below the poverty line, homeless people, the elderly from geriatric boarding houses.

The program was started in partnership with the Youth for Peace initiative (Ukrainian partner of the international organization of the Community of St. Aegidius).

Under the program, the museum is also opened to cooperation with other organizations that care for these social groups. Please send partnership offers by using “Submit Request” or by contacting the program coordinator.

Someone can’t imagine the beginning of the day without morning coffee, someone - without fitness. What about traveling in time and deepening your knowledge in the realm of art?

On every Saturday morning we invite you to get acquainted with the Khanenko Museum permanent exhibition together with qualified volunteer guides.

Exploring the unique Khanenko estate in the context of the history of the family of the founders of the museum. Witnessing to key works of Western European and Byzantine collections.

Guided tour with an overview of works of art in Western Europe, images or subjects of which originated in the myths of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Guided tour on European art, devoted to people's lives in different historical eras. Fine arts works, exquisite things were witnesses and participants of people's lives. The objects depicted in works of ancient art shed light on the world of everyday life of people of past eras.

Exploration of the iconography and symbolism of various types of images of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus from Byzantine icon of the 6th century to 16th-century European religious art.

Nowadays various Eastern spiritual practices have become part of Western culture in the interest of supporting physical and mental health. However, they originally served a much more ambitious purpose - the transition of man to another level of being (to another category of beings in the universe).

The museum's collection gives a great opportunity to learn about Buddhism in its practical aspect.

Particular attention during the tour will be given to the deep connection between spiritual practices and the creative activity of man.

Everyone can see the art. During the special excursion, the participants will get acquainted with the exposition of European art and early Byzantine icons, the history of the museum and the interiors of the Khanenko estate. Audioscript technique is used to describe the space and the works of art. For a better understanding of the information, visitors will be introduced to an accurate tactile model of the work and other specially selected thematic tactile materials.

Please note: Excursion only on request.

We invite you to the guided tour around the Khanenkos’ historical mansion to experience the exquisite atmosphere and to see the European and Byzantine art collections.

The next tours’ schedule:

26.12 at 14:00

16.01 at 12:00

20.02 at 12:00

This unique program was created by the Khanenko museum’s educators in partnership with the Blagovest Soloist Ensemble. During each episode great historical epochs (Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and etc) open to visitors their boundless visual and musical dimensions.

Moving from one hall of the gorgeous Khanenkos’ mansion to another visitors enjoy a capella and orchestra performances combined with refined art historical interludes by a museum guide.

The program schedules 3 concert tours throughout the year, each episode offering special focused program.

To get updated info on the 2019-2020 Voices of Ages schedule and focus themes, please call our museum administrators: +380 44 235 32 90.

Concerts of classical European and traditional Asian music are held on a regular basis (usually once a month) in the Khanenkos’ mansion or, in summertime, in the museum courtyard.

The Khanenko Museum boasts of long and fruitful partnership with Ukrainian most famous and virtuoso musicians and ensembles, laureates of international competitions and festivals.

Please follow up-to-date announcements on Events.

Tickets for the upcoming concert can be purchased at the cashiers’ desk during the museum working hours.

To learn more or to book tickets please call our museum administrator Olexandr Zhuk:

+380 44 235 32 90

Or use the “Submit Request”

The Museum Brings Together

The Museum Brings Together is a course of 5 art therapy group sessions, held in the museum exhibition premises on the exhibition days off (Monday and Tuesday). The program is aimed at the development of individual support networks for young people with intellectual disabilities.

The museum possesses huge art therapeutic resource for positive and enhancing personal and group experience of art contemplation, communication on artworks and creative practice. Thus key components of each session are: group contemplation artworks and discussion of impressions leading to free conversation on various important human life topics.

A group can attend all 5 sessions according to the plan approved by the museum. Yet it is also possible to arrange only 1 or 2 sessions (a month or a year) and continue visiting museum when it is suitable.

The program “Lectures at the Khanenko Museum” is addressed to a wide audience of people interested in deepening their artistic knowledge, and live communication with experts on various topics related to the Khanenko Museum (including topics on cultural history, world art history, history of the museum and its collection).

When? Every last Saturday of the month at 16.00. Who is on the stand? Professional researchers who are inspired through studying the Khanenko museum’s collection. They will talk about culture, history, and art, based on the examples of artifacts they research. Each month there is a new curator and a new topic of the lecture. Everything is authentic, but exciting, like in an adventure movie. Treasures are all around us.

We invite you to the guided tour around the Khanenkos’ historical mansion to experience the exquisite atmosphere and to see the European and Byzantine art collections.

Registration is required!

By phone +380 44 235 32 90