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 | | "Hard to find as mentioned below, but well worth it once you do find it. The subject is incredibly sad and fascinating, and the museum presents all sides of it in an interesting way." | Kara
Poland
Jun.24.2010
Overall rating 5/5 |
| | "I was on a tour to Chernobly with my hostel i Kiev and after that I was at this Chernobyl Museum you get a lot of info and you dont realy need to go to the real thing as this Museum is very good. But if you guys want to go her is a link
regards
Jon
http://www.hostelukraine.com/en/tours/chernobyl-tour235.html" | John
Finland
Mar.28.2010
Overall rating 4/5 |
| | "I was really glad that we visited the Chernobyl museum while traveling through Kiev in 2009. It was both incredibly informative and deeply touching. As many of the others who have written reviews complained about the lack of English material, I thought that this suggestion might be helpful; You can take an audio tour in English. It just costs an extra 2 or 3 dollars and you get a walky-talky like device with headphones that thoroughly explains everything in each station. You simply key in which station you have come to, and it begins giving you the "tour" of that station, including explanation of signs, documents, and personal letters written in Russian or Ukrainian. Doing this will completely solve the language problem and makes the museum well worth visiting!" | Sam
United States
Mar.02.2010
Overall rating 5/5 |
| | " I agree with what previous reviewers have said about language problems and the obscurity of the museum. Fortunately, I had the good luck to go there with a bilingual guide who not only took us through the museum, but brought along a first responder to tell us about his experiences. 75% of his coworkers are dead and he has health problems. In the museum is a tapestry of an old woman and the child. If you look closely, you will see that the wrinkles on her face are words (in English) woven into the fabric.
The more you understand about the disaster the better you can understand its consequences. For one, it was a very big nail in the coffin of the Soviet Communist regime. Also, if you are managing a complex system and safety is not your first priority, someone will die. This is a lesson that NASA has to relearn every 20 years or so." | Tip Ruhlin
United States
Aug.23.2009
Overall rating 4/5 |
| | "An interesting museum, but it seemed to be more of a tribute to Chernobyl victims rather than a museum about the disaster itself. Almost everything is in Russian or Ukrainian (no English) so if you don't know either language it may not be worth your while to visit." | Melissa
Canada
Feb.28.2009
Overall rating 3/5 |
| | "The Chernobyl Museum can be hard to find so I will start with directions to get there through the Metro. The museum is only about two blocks from the Kontraktova Ploscha Metro stop. When you get out of the Metro take a left and walk towards the street. This is less than half a block, then a left. This is the street that has the museum. The museum is about two or three blocks down on your left. You will see some military equipment like jeeps and such in front of the museum. There aren't any big signs or anything and don't bother asking anyone on the streets. We were literally about a block away from the museum and asked someone on the street and they had no idea what we were talking about. They do have English speakings guided tours, but the information is rather limited. I would suggest watching Discovery Channel's Disaster at Chernobyl (you can watch it on YouTube) before you go if you want some better information about how the accident happened." | Mike
United States
Dec.24.2008
Overall rating 3/5 |
| | "interesting museum. Staff didn't speak much English, and the whole experience was typical East bloc dusty old museum, but the photos were a real insight for someone, like me, who didn't know much about the Chornobyl disaster before they visited" | Big D
United Kingdom
Jul.02.2007
Overall rating 4/5 |
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