Ancient instruments	The bee-toiler	The bee’s cells

Address: 19, Zabolotnogo Str., Kiev
Phone: +38 (044) 5263025.
Visits by prior arrangement only.

Museum has existed from the middle of 1980th. The life of apian family, the technology of gathering of honey, developing of scientific apiculture, legends and beliefs, connected with gathering of honey – you can discover all these in the Museum. Here you will be told that there are 3 kinds of apiculture: wild-hive beekeeping, apiarian and body apiculture.

Honey beverages were loved and valued by our pagan forefathers. In the treaty of Prince Oleg of 911, honey and wax were called one of the main products of trade between Rus and Byzantium. The founder of modern apiculture Petr Prokopovich (1775-1850) was born in Chernigivshchina; he was an inventor of the first mobile hive for gathering honey in the world, and founder of the first apiculture school in the world. In Apiculture Museum you can learn about all these and many other things.

Museum has existed from the middle of 1980th. The life of apian family, the technology of gathering of honey, developing of scientific apiculture, legends and beliefs, connected with gathering of honey – you can discover all these in the Museum. Here you will be told that there are 3 kinds of apiculture: wild-hive beekeeping, apiarian and body apiculture. Bee-tree is hollowed out in an alive tree, body is hung up to the tree in the wood, and an ordinary stub with a hollow served as a bee-hive. All these you can see in the Museum.

We will find out what saints patronize honey flow, about folk honey holidays, about technology of preparing numerous honey beverages and sweets. And, of course, we can degust sweet pleasure and proud of Ukraine – its honey. There is a huge choice of it for children and adults. So, make the right choice in selecting honey and after visiting the Museum use it expertly and with knowledge of technologies.

On the Museum stands and in show windows there are instruments of apiculturists of the 19^th century, pictures and engravings, first editions, reflecting the development of “honey science”. The works of P.Prokopovich were published in Europe and USA; he is famous all round the world reformer of technology of gathering of honey, scientist and enlightener, pedagogue and biologist. His followers saved and increased the basis of culture of Ukrainian apiculture, which was recognized as leading one in the world for a long time.