Attractions of Zhytomyr region

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 local history museum in Chernyakhiv was founded in 1967. The exposition tells about the nature and history of the Chernyakhov region.

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.

The room-museum of history of the Korosten porcelain factory works in the city house of culture since 2012. Here is a part of the exposition, which was previously located in the lobby of the main building of the enterprise, which is currently closed. The locals also helped to create the exposition. Today, the number of unique things in the museum room is about 500 units.

The building of a water mill on the river Miki on the southern outskirts of Radomyshl was built in the late nineteenth century (according to other sources in 1904) on the foundations of a paper factory founded in 1606 by Archimandrite Elisha Pletenetsky to provide paper to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra printing house. The factory was destroyed during the Cossack uprisings. The neo-Gothic mill building, built on the ruins, looks like a medieval castle. The building has three wings from 3 to 5 floors, connected by an 8-storey tower in the center. A spiral staircase with 158 steps leads to the bell tower. The mill operated until the 1960s, then was abandoned for a long time. In 2011, on the initiative of the Bogomolets-Sheremetyev family, the historical and cultural complex "Radomysl Castle" was opened in the restored building. In the authentic interiors of the XVII-XIX centuries there is an exposition of the "Museum of the Ukrainian domestic icon" and antiques. 5 thousand icons of the XVII-XXI centuries are presented. from all regions of Ukraine from the private collection of Olga Bogomolets, including works by folk artists, who often gave images of living human traits and emotions. The pearl of the collection is the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker, carved in stone. Also in the museum you can see unique antique photographs, a collection of antique cards in the Dining Room, a collection of antique irons and household utensils, antique wooden sculptures, antique chandeliers, paintings and furniture. In addition, the process of hand-made paper has been resumed at Radomysl Castle. The paper mill has all the equipment used by monks in the 17th century, as well as a printing press to apply text to finished sheets. Those interested can attend a master class and make a sheet of paper themselves. The castle has a concert hall for 150 seats, a majestic ceremonial hall for celebrations, an ancient refectory with a large castle oven and a 60-liter cauldron on an open fire. There is a landscape park near the castle.

The synagogue in Pavoloch was built in 1772, when there was a large Jewish community in the village. Today, the synagogue building houses the People's Museum of the History of the Village.

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.

The Museum of History of Khoroshiv District was opened in 1988. Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 1.5 thousand exhibits. Including - tools of ancient people (stone hammers, axes, chisels, scrapers, etc.); wooden household items of Polishchuks (loom, spinning wheel, ruble, combs for combing flax, etc.); peaches, samovars; maps, land merchants, bills, paper and metal money; home-woven towels, shirts; military awards during the Second World War and more. Noteworthy is the & quot; Geometric Plan & quot; (1906) on the sale by the landlady Trubetskaya to the peasant Gefka of three tenths of land in the village of Horoshky (old name Khoroshova). The museum also has an exposition & quot; Kutuzov and Goroshki & quot ;, dedicated to the commander's stay on his estate in Goroshki.

Museum of Fine Arts. I. Bukhanchuk presents a unique collection of paintings in the style of socialist realism. It was opened in 1974 on the initiative of art critic and collector I. Bukhanchuk, who taught in the 1960s at the Leningrad Art Institute. The museum building was designed in 1985 under the direction of Professor I. Fomin. Bukhanchuk provided the museum with its own collection of paintings, numbering 600 exhibits. Later, the collection was replenished from state funds, many Soviet artists donated their works to the museum, and soon the collection numbered 3,000 originals. In particular, paintings by folk artists of Ukraine T. Yablonska, M. Glushchenko, M. Maksymenko are presented. The works of the St. Petersburg sculptor N. Nikiforova fascinate with filigree technique. Photography in the halls is prohibited.

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 modern exposition of the Korosten Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1987 in the premises of the former headquarters of the Korosten Fortress. Here is a history of the region from ancient times based on the results of archaeological research conducted in the 1990s. The most valuable exhibits are samples of minerals, weapons of the XIII-XIX centuries, tools of Polishchuks, objects of folk decorative and applied art. A special place in the exhibition is occupied by the canvas-diorama "Princess Olga near the walls of ancient Iskorosten" (artist O. Turansky, 1982), which recreates the picture of the arrival of the widowed princess of Kiev to the walls of the rebellious city.

The Lesia Ukrainka Literary Memorial Museum in Novohrad-Volynskyi was established in a small house where the future poetess was born in 1871. A simple one-story house of a burgher Okruzhka was rented in 1870 by the Kosach family: the chairman of the Congress of Justices of the Peace P. Kosach and his wife Olga, who is known by the literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka. Little Larissa spent the first two years of her life here, after which the family moved. The interior of Lesya Ukrainka's parents' house has been restored, the atmosphere of the child's room and father's office has been restored, and relics of the Kosach family, including Lesya Ukrainka's personal belongings, are presented in other rooms. The transitional gallery leads to the neighboring house (former economic), where a literary-memorial exposition is unfolded. A bust of Lesya Ukrainka is installed in the yard.

The estate of the family of the famous traveler and ethnographer M. Miklouho-Maclay is located in the tract Gamarnya on the western outskirts of Malyn. Miklouho-Maclay's mother bought the Gamarnia estate in the early 19th century from the Shcherbakov princes, and the scientist himself visited it several times. Since 1931, the Malyn Forestry Technical School (now a college) has been located near the estate. Of particular value is the park, which has many rare trees aged 500-600 years. A house with neo-Gothic elements, built by Miklouhy, has been preserved and is now part of one of the college buildings. In 1986, a small museum exposition dedicated to the researcher's scientific activity was opened in it. In 2015, the Miklouho-Maclay Museum was opened. A bust of the scientist and a memorial plaque have been installed.

The "Rock" facility in Korosten is a former secret underground command post of the Korosten fortified area №5, which was part of the so-called "Stalin Line". It was built in 1936 on the basis of a system of natural and artificial caves in the granite rock, on which in the VIII-XIII centuries. stood the ancient n city of Iskorosten. Also known as "Stalin's Bunker". In case of war, it was planned to command the South-Western Front. The object was not used for its intended purpose. In 1941, a detachment of 200 Red Army soldiers defended themselves against the Nazis for a week. In Soviet times, the facility remained under the control of the military, then was transferred to the civil defense system. All this time the equipment (ventilation system, water supply, autonomous power supply, communication) remains in working order. The seal of secrecy was lifted in 2005, and the efforts of enthusiasts began the creation of the military-historical museum complex "Rock", dedicated to the initial period of the Second World War. One of the probable three levels of corridors and caves has been investigated. Excursions are by prior arrangement.