Attractions of Bohuslav

The Ivan Soshenko House-Museum in Boguslav was opened in 1973 in the house of the artist's father, where he was born in 1807. The exposition is located in three rooms. In the first room there are materials about Ivan's childhood and adolescence. The exposition of the next room covers the artist's stay in St. Petersburg and his studies at the Academy of Arts (1832-1838). The third room tells about Ivan Soshenko's meeting with Taras Shevchenko, the artist's work as a drawing teacher. The museum presents photo reproductions of numerous sketches and drawings of the artist, as well as photocopies that tell about the activities of Ivan Soshenko as a teacher, about the last years of his life. On December 15, 1973, the grand opening of the museum-estate took place. A monument to I. Soshenko (designed by I. Kopaygorenko, architect V. Bogdanovsky) has been erected on the territory of the museum.

The estate-museum of the writer Marko Vovchok is a branch of the Museum of the History of Bogulavshchyna. Prominent Ukrainian writer Maria Vilinska, who entered the literature under the pseudonym Marko Vovchok, lived in the Boguslav region for almost 8 years (first in the city, and then in the house of Count Branicki in neighboring Khokhitva). She came here with a man who was appointed forester. The story "Sly Khaimka" was written on Boguslav motives. The only museum in Ukraine, Marko Vovchok, was opened in half of the house where she lived. In the exposition - original things of the writer, embroidery, letters.

The Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts in Boguslav is a department of the Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region. It is located in the oldest civil building in the city, which locals call "Kamyanytsia". This archaic massive two-storey building with external wooden stairs was erected in the XVIII century for the Jewish religious school. The thickness of its walls reaches 1.2 m, the building has deep basements. During the Second World War, the Gestapo was located here, then the Museum of Komsomol Glory.

Now in the restored "Kamyanytsia" there is an exhibition of modern local decorative and applied art - the work of Dybynets potters and masters of artistic weaving. In particular, the longest woven towel in Ukraine with a length of almost 105 m, created in 2017 in honor of the 985th anniversary of the founding of Boguslav, is on display. To view the exhibit, visit the nearby Boguslav History Museum.

The Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region is considered to be one of the most creative historical museums in small towns of Ukraine. It is located in a two-story building of the former ministerial school in 1907. The exposition presents an interesting collection of archaeological finds of the Paleolithic era, household items of Scythians and ancient Slavs, ancient Russian jewelry, Cossack relics, photographs and documents of the Ukrainian Revolution.

The original is decorated with exhibition halls in the spirit of its time. First, visitors enter a cave of the Stone Age, then go from the Scythian burial to the wooden frame of Boguslav Castle, then find themselves in the interiors of a village house and a burgher house, where the iron stairs fall into the era of industrialization.

The branches of the Museum of the History of the Boguslav Region are the Museum of Modern Decorative and Applied Arts, the Ivan Soshenko Memorial Museum-Estate, and the Mark Vovchko Memorial Museum-Estate.