The One Street Museum is a museum on
Andriyivskyy Descent
Andrew's Descent ( uk, Андріївський узвіз, ) is a historic descent connecting Kyiv's Upper Town neighborhood and the historically commercial Podil neighborhood. The street, often advertised by tour guides and operators as the "Mo ...
in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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. It houses many of the historic items of the descent, containing more than 7000 exhibits. They include information about the
Saint Andrew's Church, the castle of Richard Lionheart, and the many other buildings of the Descent. The museum hosts historical documents, manuscripts, autographs, antique postcards, photos, and a great number of objects of the antique interior.
Also, the museum has a collection of various works by Ukrainian philologist
Pavlo Zhytetsky
Pavlo Hnatovych Zhytetsky ( uk, Павло Гнатович Житецький; January 4, 1837 in Kremenchuk - March 18, 1911 in Kiev) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Linguistics, linguist, Philology, philologist, ethnography, ethnographer and litera ...
, Arabist and professor of the Kyiv University
Taufik Kezma, journalist and public figure
Anatoly Savenko
Anatoly Ivanovich Savenko (russian: Савенко, Анатолий Иванович; 28 December 1874 in Pereiaslav, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 1922 in Kerch, Russian SSR) was a Russian nationalist, social and political activist ...
, and Ukrainian writer
Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
Hryhir Mykhaylovych Tiutiunnyk ( uk, Григір Михайлович Тютюнник, 1931–1980) was a Ukrainian writer,Roman HorbykGames from the Past: "The continuity and change of the identity dynamic in Donbas from a historical perspe ...
who all lived in the house at number 34 during the twentieth century. Another part of the museum collection is the memorabilia of professors of Kyiv Theological Academy A. Bulgakov, S. Golubev, P. Kudryavtsev, F. Titov, A. Glagolev; doctors Th. Janovsky and D. Popov, and other prominent local figures.
The museum also has a large collection of antique books, including a ''Trebnik'' of the Metropolitan of Kyiv
Peter Mogila
Metropolitan Petru Movilă ( ro, Petru Movilă, uk, Петро Симеонович Могила, translit=Petro Symeonovych Mohyla, russian: Пётр Симеонович Могила, translit=Pëtr Simeonovich Mogila, pl, Piotr Mohyła; ...
, rare editions of works written by professors and graduates of the
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, books written by M. Grabovsky, the Defender of Orthodoxy, A. Muravyov, and the works of
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( rus, links=no, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʊlˈɡakəf; – 10 March 1940) was a Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the fir ...
published in his lifetime.
In 2002 the One Street Museum became a nominee for
European Museum Forum
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— an international organization under the auspices of the Council of Europe and under the patronage of
Queen Fabiola of Belgium
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. It was the first and only museum of Ukraine participating in the Forum.
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Museums in Kyiv
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Andriyivskyy Descent