Miscellaneous

The group covers items made of bone and horn, plastic and other synthetic materials, as well as those that combine parts of metal and wood.

Household items take a considerable place among them: lighting devices, writing supplies and printing equipment, travel suitcases, and personal items such as spectacles and pince-nez, pipes and lighters, umbrellas, fans and make-up accessories, as well as examples of special, industrial and household equipment, including means of communication: 2 telegraph and 10 telephone sets. There is an interesting collection of clocks, wall, floor, table and wrist, and cameras of various periods with their equipment.

Research equipment is represented by various optical, measuring and computing instruments, laboratory complexes and installations, as well as items from Soyuz spacecraft and the Salyut orbital station.

A large part of the collections of personal belongings of H. I. Petrovskyi, S. I. Vasylkivskyi, O. M. Beketov, M. F. Sumtsov, I. A. Marianenko, H. F. Proskura, V. Ya. Yuriev, K. D. Synelnykov, H. S. Mohylchenko, L. T. Mala, Oles Donchenko and Ihor Muratov, and other public and cultural figures, belongs to the “Miscellaneous” storage group. It also includes various souvenirs, among them personal mementoes and gifts, including those from foreign citizens (students) and delegations. The collection of toys and dolls represents traditional and modern puppet theatre, the work of folk craftsmen and children’s groups, and ethnic costumes of peoples of different countries; the most interesting are dolls in national dress from Korea and Czechia.