Attractions of Berdychiv district

The Museum of Judaism of the city of Berdychiv was opened in 2015 in the premises of the City Library for Children. The exposition in two halls tells about the life of Berdychiv Jews, about the history and traditions of the Jewish people, as well as about the tragic events of the Holocaust during the Second World War. The exhibits were provided by Berdychiv residents, including the city's Jewish community.

The Empire-style palace with antique motifs in the decor was built in 1800 by the Italian architect Blerio Count V. Gansky, who inherited the estate of Verkhivnya from his father Jan Gansky. The count presented the estate with a palace and outbuildings, a large landscape park and a tomb church to his young wife Evelina of the Rzewuski family, who was considered one of the first beauties in Poland. From here, Evelina began a secret correspondence with Honore de Balzac, signing under the pseudonym "Foreigner". Their first meeting in Switzerland soon took place, but only 15 years later, when Evelina's husband died, was the writer able to come to the Supreme. In Balzac's surviving office, on the second floor of the palace, is a table at which he wrote "The Deputy from Arcy," "The Petty Bourgeois," "The Theater That He Is," and the drama "Stepmother." The interior of Balzac's bedroom has not survived - there are portraits of the novelist performed by his contemporaries. The Balzac Memorial Museum is located in these rooms. Other rooms of the palace are occupied by the agrotechnical college, restoration is underway.

The Museum of the English writer Joseph Conrad (Yu. T. Kozhenevsky), a native of Berdychiv and a Pole by birth, was opened in 2015 in the complex of the Monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites. The materials of the exposition were shared by the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature (Warsaw), the Jagiellonian Library (Krakow), the Beineke Library (Yale University), the Central Maritime Museum (Gdansk), and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (England). Materials from his own archive were also provided by Professor Z. Naider (Poland). The main exhibit is a fragment of the hull of the ship Otego, whose captain was Joseph Conrad. Interactive technologies are widely used in the exposition. Admission is free.

Berdychiv City Historical Museum is located in one of the wings of the monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites - the former house of priests. In addition to the main exposition, which tells about the history of the city of Berdychiv, the museum can visit a variety of thematic exhibitions.