The National Museum “Kyiv Picture Gallery” is one of the most prominent art museums in Ukraine, founded in 1922 in the former estate of the Tereshchenko family. The museum’s collection includes over 14,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, and decorative and applied arts. Among the main treasures are icons of the 13th–17th centuries, portraits by Borovikovsky and Levytsky, landscapes by Aivazovsky and Shishkin, paintings by Repin and Vrubel, as well as works by contemporary Ukrainian artists.
The museum continues to operate even in conditions of full-scale invasion – despite the fact that the gallery building was damaged by rocket fire in the center of Kyiv in 2022. The team perceives its activities as a contribution to the cultural front of the struggle for Ukrainian identity, organizing exhibitions of contemporary painting and art events that reflect the experiences and resilience of the country during wartime.