There are tours that you can take to Chernobyl, but we decided to visit the museum in Kiev dedicated to the disaster instead of visit the site… mainly because it didn’t come with warnings about how to avoid contamination with radiation.
The audio guide and exhibits highlighted many personal stories from the days, weeks and months following the tragedy. The museum represented the disaster as occurring mostly due to a design flaw. It stressed the heroics of those present at the time who attempted to mitigate the consequences, in some cases knowingly giving their lives.
However, quite coincidentally, we later met a Canadian nuclear power worker in Bucharest that informed us that the Ukrainians made many mistakes and that the accident was preventable.
Below are photos from Victor Yanukovych’s estate when he was Prime Minister and President. It is now a museum displaying his excessive expenditures while in office.
We could not read all of the exhibits in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War (below), but it was still worth the visit. It remembers the 8 to 14 million Ukrainians that died during the war.
what a powerful experience….and love the pic of the natalie sandwich!