The People's Bread Museum belongs to the National Ecological and Naturalistic Center of Student Youth of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The museum contains more than 2000 exhibits that tell about the history of bread, its importance for humans, the origin of the main grain crops (rye, wheat, corn, barley and others). The purpose of the museum is to teach love for the land, for bread, for people for work.

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Schoolchildren of the city of Kiev collected more than sixty loaves from different parts of Ukraine, ceremonial pastries, prosphora, Georgian lavash, Jewish matsu. In addition, the exhibits are dedicated to poets who wrote about bread, Ukrainian scientific breeders who brought out new varieties of wheat, more than a hundred samples of agricultural crops, ancient stupas and millstones.

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More than 150 beautiful loaves from different parts of Ukraine can be seen in the exposition “Bread is the head of the whole”. Its decoration, the national bread of Ukraine is our lush Ukrainian loaf with a rosy scallop. And here you can see the national bread of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania and even France and other countries of the world. The Museum also contains more than 100 exhibits of various agricultural crops: wheat, rye, oats, barley. In the exposition of the Museum there is space white and black bread, donated by the Ukrainian cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union P. R. Popovich.

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A place in the museum is given to the poet T. G. Shevchenko, who warmly wrote in his works about bread, about the hard work of the farmer. A twig of three spikes, tied with a yellow-blue ribbon, a loaf with a trident is a gift to the poet from the youth of Ukraine.

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The exposition of the museum also tells about the development of agriculture during the collectivization period and about the Holodomor in Ukraine. It is from the museum's photo exhibition about the Ukrainian Holodomor that many foreign tourists for the first time learn about the greatest tragedy of the Ukrainian people.

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In the exposition a significant place is devoted to stories about the agricultural field of the war years (1941—1945) and during its revival, in particular, the norms of bread issuance to the population of blockaded Leningrad on bread cards are shown. In this exposition is engraved a harsh memory, an angry indictment of the flames of war. In all the exhibits, from the bread box to the diary of Tanya Savicheva, there is an appeal to the peoples of the world to prevent new deaths and destruction.

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The Museum of Bread reflects the great role of Ukrainian scientists breeders — academicians: V. M. Remesla, V. I. Yurieva, F. G. Kirichenko and many others. IN. M. Craft, former director of the Myroniv Wheat Research Institute named after Academician V. M. Crafts, produced wheat varieties “Mironovskaya 264", “Mironovskaya 808”, “Mironovskaya 10", “Jubilee” and many others, which in terms of yield exceeded the varieties introduced until now in production.

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In 2006, it was the 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Bread Museum of the National Museum of Student Youth of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. During this period, the museum was visited by more than 1.5 million visitors. Every year the exposition is visited by more than fifteen thousand students, students, educators. Leonid Kuchma visited here twice, deputies of different ranks, diplomats, scientists, writers and astronaut Leonid Kadeniuk left their entries in the book of reviews. On the basis of the Museum, seminars of teachers, students, pedagogical workers of out-of-school educational institutions, All-Ukrainian competitions “Bread through the eyes of children”, “Bread of my Motherland”, etc. are held annually. Museum employees often travel around the villages, collect exhibits, record the stories of farmers.

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