Nikolai Syadristy’s Museum of Microminiature

Address: Bld. 5, 21, I. Mazepa’s Street, Kiev

Tel: +38 (044) 280-81-37

Opening Hours: 10:00 - 13:30; 14:30 - 17:00. Closed on Monday.

You have a chance visit a unique museum.There are only 4 microminiature museums in the world (in Kyiv, Moscow, Hungary and in the dwarf mountain principality of Andorra, which looks like a miniature too)

The world's smallest book is stored here. The fact is officially recorded in Guinness Book of Records. There most of compositions are created in the half of poppy seed. There Egyptian pharaoh rushes through the eye of a needle. Nikolai Syadristy is the author of these mini-miracles. His name has been already entered in the history of world art... Nikolai Syadristy is the man who really shoed a flea. And this flea with horseshoes on is also exhibited here.

What else can be seen in the Kievan Museum of miniatures? You will be amazed with the description of each microminiature as the scale that is not measurable in millimeters. Actually it is measurable in thousandths of a millimeter. Have a look at "Rose in the hair", for example. There is the cavity drilled inside the human hair along its length. It is polished to transparency. A rose branch with thickness of 0,05 mm is inserted into the cavity. A caravan of golden camels is set in the eye of the needle hinting on the well-known phrase from the New Testament that it is easier for a camel to enter the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the heavenly kingdom. Nearby you can see a man walking on anchoring hairs taken from the wristwatch. The thickness of the figurine is 5 microns! You can see the world's tiniest book too. That is Kobzar by Shevchenko. Its size is 0,6 mm.. And can you imagine the model of the windmill consisting of 203 golden items set on half of a poppy seed? Also Syadristy created the world's tiniest electric engine. The engine capacity is 1 / 20 cubic mm. Such engine is nearly 20 times smaller than a poppy seed. So if you want to get into the world of not just midgets but mini-micro-midgets you are to visit the permanent exhibition of the works of Nikolai Syadristy!