Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

Technical Museum "Time Machines" presents a private collection of rare cars of the Dnieper collector M. Prudnikov. It is located in an abandoned shop of automatic molding machines near the center of the Dnieper. The atmosphere of the city street of 1950-60s is recreated in the hall. In the museum garage - about 25 cars, mostly Soviet-made, with a slight bias in sports. Presented "Zaporozhye", "Muscovites", "Zhiguli", "Volga", "Victory", "Seagulls" of various modifications and years of production, as well as SUVs, trucks and buses. At the museum of retro cars there is a cafe decorated in a retro style.

The Ternivka branch of the Kryvyi Rih City Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1970 as a school museum in the village of Veseli Terny, which is now part of the city of Kryvyi Rih. Since 1981, the museum has a separate two-story building. Today the exposition presents archeological finds from the mounds of Kryvyi Rih, objects of the Cossack era, materials about the "Iron Fever" in Kryvyi Rih at the end of the XIX century and others. There are constant expositions about the nature and ethnography of the region.

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro (DNIM) presents one of the best historical collections of Ukraine, in particular Cossack antiquities. It is also one of the most progressive museums in Ukraine, which holds regular museum festivals, theatrical night tours with music and lighting effects, themed museum salons.

The institution was founded in 1849 by Governor Andriy Fabre as the Public Museum of the Ekaterinoslav Province. At first he was housed in one of the rooms of the Potemkin Palace, then moved several times. In 1902, on its basis, as well as on the basis of several private collections, the Regional Museum named after Oleksandr Pol was opened, headed by a prominent historian, researcher of the Ukrainian Cossacks Dmytro Yavornytsky. Since 1905, the museum has been housed in a museum building specially built for him in a modernized classicist style.

Today the funds of the Historical Museum. Yavornytsky has 240,000 museum items. About 7,000 of them are presented in the exhibition, which tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the middle of the twentieth century. These include archeological monuments, relics of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, old prints and rare editions, porcelain, clocks, furniture, weapons and many other historical and cultural monuments. In particular, a statuette of Pharaoh Ramses VI, a milk cart and a carriage from the time of Catherine II's journey to the South, the first Soviet tractor. In front of the entrance there is a collection of stone sculptures: Scythian stone statues and Polovtsian "babas". A monument to Dmytro Yavornytsky's grave has been erected on the square near the museum.

The old one-storey part of the museum is combined with a new two-storey building, which houses the largest in Ukraine dioramas "Battle for the Dnieper" with an exhibition of military equipment nearby, as well as a new museum exposition "Public feat of Dnipropetrovsk residents in anti-terrorist operation events". In addition, the museum has a number of branches in the city.

Zhovtovodsk Historical Museum was established in 1985. The exposition is located in ten halls on two floors. The first hall is dedicated to the events of the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people in 1648-54 and the victory of Bohdan Khmelnytsky at Zhovti Vody. The second hall presents the development of the village of Zhovta Rika and the extraction of iron ore: models of the Lviv quarry, the mine "Kapitalna", the village of Zhovta Rika in 1913. Separate expositions are devoted to the events of the Second World War and the development of the city in the postwar years. The model of the city of Yellow Waters is presented. In the five halls of the second floor there are collections of clocks, minerals, numismatics, painting, graphics, artistic embroidery, sculpture.