Attractions of Zhytomyr

The Museum of Ancient Tools "Craft Yard" in Zhytomyr is located at the railway station Kroshnya. Every thing in the exhibition is original. The entire collection includes several thousand exhibits, including 115 specimens of axes. Kerosene all-weather lamps for railwaymen and policemen with a tricolor semaphore, an old manual device for roasting coffee beans with their simultaneous stirring, a copy of an ancient smithy in which the air is supplied by real Austrian bellows of the end of the XIX century are presented. The collection also includes tools designed for production, the technology of which is considered lost.

Zhytomyr Literary Memorial Museum of V. Korolenko was opened to the 120th anniversary of the outstanding writer and public figure in the house where he spent his childhood and adolescence. Korolenko became famous as an active participant in the populist movement and author of many literary works, the most famous of which are: "The Forest Makes Noise", "Blind Musician", "In Bad Society", "Judgment Day", "Speechless", "Children of the Dungeon". The exposition is located in seven halls on a chronological basis, has 10 thousand exhibits: personal belongings, lifetime publications of Korolenko and contemporary writers, works of graphics, painting, sculpture, applied art.

The Serhiy Korolyov National Museum of Cosmonautics was opened in 1970 in Zhytomyr, where in 1907 the future founder of the practical development of outer space was born. The memorial part of the museum is located in a small house where the Royal family lived at the beginning of the XX century. The interiors were restored according to his mother's memories. The exposition of the space pavilion, opened in 1991, presents the originals and models of spacecraft, spacesuits and other equipment of astronauts. Among them are a technological sample of the Soyuz spacecraft, a model of the Lunokhod-2, and the original of the Soyuz-27 spacecraft, which has been in space. One of the most valuable exhibits is a capsule with the soil of the Moon, donated by NASA.

The museum actively uses modern museum technologies and innovative methods of working with the audience. In particular, during the children's excursions, a robot-assistant guide Mekkanoid is used, who recognizes voice commands, moves, jokes and even dances. In the museum you can book an interactive tour "Star Aeneas", which uses equipment such as simulators to train professional pilots. With the help of virtual reality glasses, visitors can visit the Moon or Venus.

Zhytomyr Museum of Cosmonautics provides a high level of accessibility. There is a ramp at the entrance, there are no thresholds and stairs in the exposition rooms, adapted excursions and an inclusive toilet are available.

The memorial house-museum of Academician Serhiy Korolyov in Zhytomyr is a part of the Museum of Cosmonautics named after Korolyov, located opposite the main building of the exhibition "Space". The first museum in the apartment, where the future rocket scientist, a leading designer of Soviet space rockets, was born in 1907, opened in 1970. 7 years later, the memorial part was supplemented by a new exposition about the life and career of the general designer. The museum recreates the atmosphere of the apartment in which the Korolyov family lived at the beginning of the XX century. The exposition includes many materials, documents, personal belongings, which were donated to the museum by relatives and colleagues of Korolyov. Photographs, utensils, interior items belonging to the Queen's family, notes and drawings made by the genius designer, his costume and even a strand of hair from the very first haircut - all this can be seen during a tour of the museum.

An ancient mansion built in the 19th century on the Castle Square for the head of the Zhytomyr Catholic Diocese is called the Episcopal House in Zhytomyr. Currently, the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local Lore is located here, founded in 1865, when Volyn Governor M. Chortkov exhibited his collection of samples of 48 minerals and rocks in the public library. Then the exposition was supplemented by a collection of coins of the leader of the Zhytomyr nobility K. Symonych, materials of the Volyn diocesan ancient repository, nationalized collections of Counts Illinsky-Stetsky and Baron I. de Shoduar. Now the funds number 150 thousand monuments of history and culture, but the exhibition presents only a small part of the historical events of the first half of XX century. The main exhibition space is occupied by the art department of the museum, which presents a unique collection of works of art by Italian, Dutch, French, Polish and Russian masters of the XVI-XX centuries. The historical exposition is planned to be opened in the building of the magistrate.

Zhytomyr Regional Literary Museum is located in an old two-storey building in the Art Nouveau style, built in the early XX century. The exposition consists of four sections: the French writer O. de Balzac, the Zhytomyr theatrical artist I. Shevchenko, the poet-translator B. Ten and the family of the composer M. Skorulsky.