The Pokrovsk Historical Museum, founded in 1967, is located on the ground floor of a high-rise building in the center of Pokrovsk. The museum has 14,000 museum items. Among the archeological monuments there is a ritual vessel found at the excavations of the Novovasylivsky mound with an ornament-icon of a map of the starry sky with a weekly schedule of the summer sun in the middle of winter, as well as a stone depicting the starry sky from an ancient altar. In the ethnographic exposition you can see collections of irons, samovars, Easter eggs, towels, postcards. A separate exhibition tells about the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, who at the beginning of the XX century worked for 4 years as a singing teacher at the railway school in P ...

The Pokrovsk Historical Museum, founded in 1967, is located on the ground floor of a high-rise building in the center of Pokrovsk. The museum has 14,000 museum items. Among the archeological monuments there is a ritual vessel found at the excavations of the Novovasylivsky mound with an ornament-icon of a map of the starry sky with a weekly schedule of the summer sun in the middle of winter, as well as a stone depicting the starry sky from an ancient altar. In the ethnographic exposition you can see collections of irons, samovars, Easter eggs, towels, postcards. A separate exhibition tells about the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, who at the beginning of the XX century worked for 4 years as a singing teacher at the railway school in Pokrovsk. Polovtsian stone babas are installed in front of the entrance.