The Metropolitan’s Residence Exposition

Today, the Metropolitan’s Residence Museum has formed the first and so far the only exhibition in Ukraine, which recreates the interior of the metropolitan private rooms of the 18th – 19th centuries. Stoves made on the models of those that heated the Metropolitan’s Residence in the 18th century are reproduced in the original premises. They are created by masters of the “Honchari” firm and painted by hand with plots on evangelical and household themes.

The premises, which belong to a later time, are equipped with authentic stoves, which are faced by the tiles made at the Kyiv ceramic factory of I. Andrzheiovskyi. The tiles of this enterprise were of special quality and sophistication.

Furniture, carpets and other utensils, presented in the exhibition, are made mainly in France in the 19^th century. The real decoration of the interiors are such original exhibits as a floor clock (18^th century), a cylinder bureau (mid-19^th century), a fireplace made of red marble of a rare type – griotte (second half of the 19^th century). The exposition also shows old prints in Old Slavonic and foreign languages ​​of the 16^th – 18^th centuries. The premises are organically complemented by portraits of former residents of the House – Kyiv metropolitans of the 18^th – early 20^th centuries – from the collection of portraits of the Kyiv Orthodox Theological Academy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.