Attractions of Dnipro

The memorial house-museum of Academician Dmytro Yavornytsky in Dnipro is the only residential estate of old Katerynoslav that has survived to this day. It was built in 1905 according to the project of architect Leonid Brodnytsky opposite the Potemkin Palace in the current Shevchenko Park. Dmytro Yavornytsky, a prominent Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, and public figure, lived and worked in this small red-brick house with a belvedere and a carved wooden veranda for 35 years. Heading the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum, he became famous as a researcher of the history of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

The interiors of the rooms of Yavornytsky's house were recreated as they were during his life: the lobby, the hall, the study, the living room, the dining room, the mezzanine. The exhibition presents many memorial items: student notebooks from the time of study at the Kharkiv gymnasium, workbooks exhibited his own things, documents, letters, photographs, paintings. Among personal belongings: embroidered shirt, stick, glasses, etc. In front of the house you can still see pine and poplar planted by Yavornytsky.

The Dnipro Art Museum opened in 1914 on the initiative of members of the art commission of the Ekaterinoslav Scientific Society. Initially, the exhibition was located in the Potemkin Palace (now the Palace of Students of DNU), then in the house of Khrennikov (now Hotel Ukraine). During the Soviet era, the collection was replenished with works by domestic and Western European masters from the collection of Dmitry Yavornytsky, as well as from the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the Hermitage (St. Petersburg). In 1936, the Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum received more than 300 works as a gift from the painter I. Brodsky, which are still the basis of the exhibition. Today the museum's collection includes 8.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and decorative and applied arts of the XVI-XXI centuries. The permanent exhibition includes works by V. Borovikovsky, I. Shishkin, I. Levitan, K. Korovin, V. Serov, I. Repin, M. Pymonenko, O. Murashko, and others. The pearl of the collection are the works of the Ekaterinoslav symbolist artist M. Sapozhnikov. A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the works of famous masters of Petrykivka decorative painting.

The Museum of the Memory of the Jewish People and the Holocaust in Ukraine is the largest museum in the country, which tells the story of Jewry in Ukraine, as well as the persecution and mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War II. The museum also tells about the tragedies of Ukrainians, Roma, Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Poles and other peoples. The museum collection has more than 16 thousand exhibits of the main fund. These are objects of Judaism and a collection of publications of spiritual literature of the XIX-XX centuries, household items of that era, artifacts related to the Holocaust (literature, leaflets and announcements, equipment and weapons), personal belongings of Jews involved in World War II, documents, manuscripts and photos related to the history of the Jews of Ukraine. The exhibition uses the principle of combining unique exhibits, modern multimedia technologies and art installations. In particular, the diorama "Babyn Yar" is presented. Visitors are offered different types of excursions - both sightseeing, throughout the Museum, and thematic, devoted to a detailed examination of certain aspects of Jewish and Ukrainian history, culture and religion. The museum is located on the 3rd floor of the Jewish cultural and business center "Menorah" in the center of Dnipro. There is also a choral synagogue, kosher restaurant, hotel. Visitors are offered comprehensive tours of the center, including access to the observation deck on the 18th floor.

The museum center of Olena Blavatska and her family in Dnipro is being created in a monumental building on the territory of the ancient Ekaterinoslav city estate of the Fadeevs, built in the early 19th century. In 1816-34 the estate belonged to O. Fadeev, Blavatsky's grandfather, and she herself was born here in 1931. Traveling around the world and exploring the ancient Eastern teachings in India and Tibet, Elena Blavatsky became famous throughout the world as a prominent theosophist, theologian, writer, creator of the International Theosophical Society. Her works were not influenced by the worldview of M. Roerich, W. Kandinsky, T. Edison, M. Gandhi. The Blavatsky Museum in Dnipro has been established since 2004. Pilot expositions are developed, the scientific library works, club meetings are held. Excursions are held from May 1 to October 15 by appointment. A memorial plaque dedicated to Olena Blavatska has been installed on the building.

The Museum of the History of Pilots of the Dnieper Thresholds is located in the Lots-Kamyansky House of Culture on the southern outskirts of the Dnieper, in the village of Lotsmanskaya Kamyanka, where Dnieper pilots, descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, lived for a long time. Prior to the construction of Dniproges, pilots escorted ships across rapids on the Dnieper. The Museum of the History of Pilots and Pilot Crafts was created on the basis of the private collection of the last Dnieper pilot G. Omelchenko. The small room of the House of Culture houses about 200 exhibits: anchors, oars, pilots' clothes, embroidered towels and shirts, chests, jugs, folk paintings and dozens of photographs.

The Museum of Ukrainian Painting in the Dnipro presents the Ekaterinoslav-Dnipro School of Painting of the XX century, at the origins of which stood artists M. Panin, M. Pogrebnyak, O. Kuko. Opened in 2013 in a modern building next to Trinity Cathedral. The main exposition, numbering more than 200 works, is dedicated to the Dnipro artists of the twentieth century. There are also albums, booklets of exhibitions of the 1960-70s, personal belongings of artists, slides with photos from family archives.

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.

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.