The model “Kyiv Castle in the mid-16th century” is one of the visitors’ favorite exhibits.
Finally, everyone interested can once again explore it in the space of the Museum and Exhibition Center!
We are extremely grateful to the National Research and Restoration Center of Ukraine and personally to its General Director Svitlana Strelʹnikova for organizing and carrying out the restoration work on this important and valuable exhibit.
This model allows one to imagine what the largest military fortification in the Middle Dnieper region looked like. The hill, where the Castle was built in the 1370s–1380s, has since been called Castle Hill. Inside the castle were the houses of the prince (later the voivode), the castellan, and the city governor — the castle administrators. The princely, later voivode, administration, a mint, wells (although they regularly dried up), and a permanent military garrison were located here, although the castle soldiers lived below the castle in Podil. There were also utility buildings intended for defense needs: powder, weapons, cannonball, and gun storage (shopa), workshops, as well as religious structures.
All of this was meticulously restored by specialist restorers and will now delight our visitors and inspire the study of the history of the Ukrainian capital.