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Address: 25 Sichnego Povsstaniya St.

Ukrainian Museum of Historical Treasures (also known as the museum of Scythian Gold) you can find in one of the most picturesque and ancient locations of the Ukrainian capital - the Pecherska Lavra. The collection of the museum is by right considered to be the richest collection of golden articles in the FSU countries. Jewelry from the earliest periods of Ukrainian history, discovered during archeological excavations, has been gathered there.
Among the articles of the museum there are such unique items as the famous treasures from the Gaimanov and the Tolstaya burial mounds, Scythian barrows, the burial of a Scythian queen with her child, a gold sheath of a Scythian short sword (akinaka), openwork masks, golden plaques and pendants, an impressive relic of ancient jewelry, a massive gold gryvna, a pectoral, breast ornament, with scenes of Scythian life and mythology, settings and frameworks for icons and religious books embellished with precious stones, as well as the masterpieces of jewelry made by Kyivan masters Ivan Ravich, Ivan Moshchenko, Mefody Narbutovich, and others.