Attractions of Khmilnytskyi district

The Museum of the History of the City of Kozyatyn was opened in 2004, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the granting of the city status to Kozyatyn. The exposition is located in an old one-story building of the former Zemstvo post office of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The fund is based on collections of railway lanterns, bourgeois furniture, folk clothing, tools of peasants, photographs, postcards, copper coins, front letters of the I and II World Wars, anniversary medals and more.

The Museum of Bread in Bilopillya was established in 1986 on the basis of an ancient windmill, built in 1910 by a local master F. Biloshkap, using details of a windmill of the XVIII century. On the first and second tiers of the mill there is an exposition that introduces visitors to the history of bread from ancient times to the present day. The farm building presents tools of farmers XIX - early. XX century The museum house recreates the rural life of the XVIII-XIX centuries, the traditional elements of the interior of which are a stove, a red corner, a pole for clothes, a table, benches, a bed, a cradle for a child. Agricultural machinery and traction tillage equipment are on display in the open area. There is an apiary and a well in the yard.

The palace of Count K. Xido, who served as Adjutant General Stessel, was built in 1913-15 by architect I. Fomin on the basis of a Lithuanian defensive castle of the 16th century. The octagonal fortress tower (1534), which served as the minaret of the mosque during the Turkish rule, has been preserved since Lithuanian times, as well as fragments of fortifications that give the palace a medieval look from the river, from the stone bridge across the Southern Bug. architect I. Fomin). A striking contrast is created by the grand facade, made in the Renaissance style and decorated with a colonnade. Until recently, the hotel housed a hotel, now the building is in disrepair. In 1976, a local history enthusiast opened a public museum in the Turkish Tower.