At the Museum of Kyiv. Museum of Kyiv, the first mini-exhibition of a single exhibit has opened. It inaugurates an entire series of mini-exhibitions that will tell various stories from the history of Kyiv.
The goal of the project is to reveal, through one museum object, the unique history of its discovery, its interpretation and significance in a historical context, and even more — to accurately reconstruct the original appearance of the object.
Often, the most interesting discoveries remain unnoticed — they are scattered in small fragments, hidden in museum storage cabinets, perhaps lost among the general exhibition, or even dryly described in lengthy specialized articles with black-and-white illustrations. And they lack the most important thing — a direct connection with our lives, and therefore remain lost elements of the mosaic of our history, traditions, and identity.
The first mini-exhibition is dedicated to a fragment of a coffee bowl that was discovered on Andriivskyi Descent during archaeological excavations in 2001. The modern reconstruction of the bowl was made by craftswoman and restorer of the Museum of Kyiv History, Hanna Chovnyk. The curator of the exhibition is Andrii Lopushynskyi — a local historian and a reenactor of the Cossack era.
This mini-exhibition reveals an entire theme of the history of coffee-making in Ukraine — in particular, did you know that Cossacks were baristas?
The story of the Cossacks and coffee, or rather a historical-fantasy annotation to the exhibit, can be heard at the Museum by scanning a QR code. It is a completely fictional tale, filled with truth and only truth. One of the many coffee stories that took place in springtime Kyiv in 1781. The character Kharyton Nepyipyvo is portrayed by theatre and film actor Viacheslav Dovzhenko. The truth was supplemented with fiction by Yana Brychko and Viktoriia Novak.
General information partner: Radio Kultura.
Along with the mini-exhibition, the museum café resumed its operation in the Museum’s art hall, receiving a new name — “The Taste of History.”
So now we are waiting for you not only at exhibitions, lectures, and workshops, but also for a cup of “coffee black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love”!