Kiev, Museum of miniature

Museum of Miniature of author Nikolay Siadristy is located at the territory of Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra.

Description

Museum of Miniature of author Nikolay Siadristy is located at the territory of Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra. Just one author’s works are presented in the museum collection – no wonder, only a few have the talent to shoe a flea.

Feature of Nikolay Siadristy creative work is that everything is made by hand, by a special technology for each kind of works. Only in Museum of Miniature in Kiev one can see the unique creations, amazing with talent of the creator, accuracy of fulfillment and sizes, certainly.

Microminiatures, presented at the museum collections, broaden fixed notion about borders of human potential, delight not only with their beauty and size, but also with author’s engineering genius. The smallest in the world operating electromotor of 1/20 mm3 size was constructed by hand of Syadristy; this device is almost 20 times less than a poppy seed.

Among other microminiatures, exposed in Museum of Miniature in Kievo-Pecherskiy reserve, practically each is unique and inimitable. For example, Rose in a hair. Within all along a hair, a cavity was drilled and polished to transparency. Then, a rose stem, 0,05 mm width, was fixed inside. It was not very difficult for the artist to place a whole caravan of gold camels to needle’s eye.

How to get: go by bus № 24 from metro station Arsenalnaya towards Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra till the terminal station