Attractions of Khmelnytsky region

Dunaevtsy District Museum of Local Lore is located in a historic building on the main street Dunaevtsy. The museum was founded in 1986. Its funds number 3,000 exhibits. The permanent exposition of the Museum of Local Lore covers the history of the city of Dunaivtsi and the whole Dunaivtsi region.

Horodok Museum of Local Lore, founded in 1969, after a complete reconstruction in 2016-2021, became a modern cultural and educational hub and was named Horodok Museum or G-Museum. On the first floor there is a branch of the Museum of Internal Affairs, on the second - an exposition on the history of Horodochchyna, on the third - a large hall for exhibitions of contemporary artists, on the fourth - a laboratory and a hall with a panorama of the city. The concept of the museum exposition is based on the figure of the famous scientist-microbiologist, author of fundamental discoveries in natural science of the late XIX - early XX centuries Serhiy Vynohradsky, who was the last landowner of Horodok. Reconstruction of the interior of the study of a scientist and a modern scientific laboratory is presented. Also in the exhibition you can see the diorama "Sarmatian Sea", learn about the geology and nature of Podolian Tovtry, see a collection of unique objects of Trypillia culture, trace the development of Horodok from XIV to XX century in historical materials, documents, photographs. Part of the exhibition is an audiovisual installation.

Khmelnytsky Museum-Studio of Photography opened in 2010 in a three-story building of the hotel & quot; Continental & quot; in the Art Nouveau style, built in the early XX century by Proskuriv merchant M. Wasserman. To this day, the original plastic forms of the facade, openwork wrought-iron balconies, decorative walls with colored glass-smalt have been preserved. The Museum of Photographic Art opened in it is the first museum of such a profile in Ukraine. The exposition includes more than 1500 exhibits (cameras, lenses, magnifiers, exposure meters and other accessories), which illustrate the development of photography and photography from the end of the XIX to the end of the XX century. The collection was collected by the director of the museum, Khmelnytsky photographer K. Zhdanov. In the lobby there is a permanent exhibition & quot; Old and New City & quot; with black-and-white and color photographs of Khmelnytsky's monuments. Photo exhibitions of the best photographers from different cities of Ukraine are held.

The Khmelnytsky Regional Literary Museum opened in 1992 as the Museum of the Writer Alexander Kuprin and the Writers of the Khmelnytsky Region. It is located in a small one-storey house in the center of Khmelnytsky, opposite Shevchenko Park. The exposition of the first hall tells about oral folk art, folklore, ancient writing, the beginning of new Ukrainian literature. In the second hall you can get acquainted with the classics of Ukrainian literature, whose names are associated with modern Khmelnytsky: Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky, Leonid Glibov, Mykhailo Starytsky and others. The literature of national minorities of the region is also presented here. The third exhibition hall tells about the writers of the XX century and modern Ukrainian literature. Meetings with writers, presentations of new publications, thematic literary and musical evenings take place in the literary and musical room "Shine of Viburnum" with an exposition about the poet-biker Мнлнеф Godovanets.

The Art Gallery of the Art Department of the Kamyanets-Podilsky State Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the former educational building of the Theological Seminary (XVIII century) on the Armenian Market Square. M. Dostoevsky, S. Rudansky, M. Leontovych, A. Svydnytsky, and others studied at the Kamyanets-Podilsky Orthodox Seminary. The museum exposition presents works of painting, graphics and sculpture of the XVII-XX centuries, as well as a collection of icons of various religious denominations. In 2008, the room-museum of Godovanets was opened. Thematic exhibitions are held.

The exhibition hall of the art department of the Kamyanets-Podilsky Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the modern city center, on the ground floor of a multi-storey building. The institution acquaints visitors with the works of contemporary artists of Ukraine. The reserve implements exhibition projects here, holds personal and collective art exhibitions, organizes concerts, workshops, fairs of handicrafts and more.

The Department of Antiquities (Archeology) of the Kamyanets-Podilsky State Historical Museum-Reserve is located in the former palace of the Armenian bishop, which was founded in the 15th century as a trading house. After the Turkish invasion, the commandant of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Jan de Witte, settled in the house. The archeological exposition is based on a collection of antiquities, which began to be collected in the XIX century. The halls of the museum recreate the dwellings of ancient man, exhibit ancient tools, household items of the people who inhabited Podillya from ancient times to the baptism of Russia. In the courtyard is a lapidary of pagan idols.

The Museum of Propaganda was opened in Shepetivka as a memorial museum of Mykola Ostrovsky - one of the four museums of the writer in Ukraine. Renamed by the decision of the Khmelnytsky regional council in 2020. It was founded in 1946, and the current building of the museum was built in 1974-79 according to the individual project of architects M. Guseev and V. Suslov. The three-storey round building, built of stone and metal, is covered with red and black smalt. According to UNESCO, the Museum of Propaganda in Shepetivka is included in the international catalog & quot; Museums of the World & quot; as a unique architectural monument. The artist-monumental design of the exposition was developed by the artist A. Haydamak. The lobby features a bust of M. Ostrovsky by sculptor V. Kornev. The main exposition is located on the third floor. The exhibits are in black cubes mounted on rails. Above the cubes are spatial compositions of various things that correspond to the epoch and theme of the stands. Photographs, documents, memorials, editions of the writer's works and illustrations to them are submitted. The museum is located on a hill, all the approaches to it are beautifully lined with stone, which, in addition to the original design, unfortunately, creates serious inconvenience when moving people with disabilities. Here, on the square, stands a monument to M. Ostrovsky.