Attractions of Kharkiv region

The Museum of Archeology of the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University dates back to 1807, when an antiquity cabinet was established at the university. In the same year he received artifacts from the excavations of Olbia. They formed the basis of the exposition of the Museum of Fine Arts and Antiquities, established at the university in 1837. At the beginning of the XX century the Archaeological Museum became an independent scientific institution. The modern exposition is located in the Exhibition Hall in the Main Building of the University. Here are some of the largest in Ukraine collections of objects of the Bronze Age, Scythian era, ancient times, Chernyakhiv and Saltivka cultures.

The Elijah Repin Memorial House-Museum is located in a small one-story building from the time of military settlements (early 19th century) on the former Nikitinskaya Street, where the famous artist lived and worked in 1876-77. Reproduced the original - a fairly simple situation. The main exhibition is dedicated to the Chuguy period in the life and work of Repin, as well as the artist's close ties with Ukraine, which were not interrupted throughout his life. Repin's personal belongings are collected here - a blue velvet beret, a white vest, a device for quick removal of shoes, etc. Also presented are unique works by local painters and icon painters of the XIX century - Chuguiv teachers Repin. There are four icons on display, and some other works by Repin: a portrait of Veryovkina, drawings, etchings. The museum's funds also include works by famous artists from the Repin area: V. Serov, V. Mayakovsky, P. Vereshchagin, M. Pymonenko, I. Pelevin.

The exposition of the Izium Museum of Local Lore named after MV Sibilova is located in an old residential building built in 1818. Currently, the museum has more than 11 thousand units of storage of fixed assets. The exposition presents archeological finds of different epochs and cultures, ancient tools, Polovtsian stone statues, etc. Special attention should be paid to: a beautiful numismatic collection, which presents rare coins, the Gospel in silver and gold - a gift from Peter I Izyusky cathedral (edition of the beginning of the XVIII century), personal belongings of the family of the Decembrist A. Rosen, works of painting: sketches by S. Vasylkivsky, paintings by M. Fedorov, V. Zabashta, F. Kogan.

Kharkiv Art Museum is one of the oldest and most valuable art collections in Ukraine. It is located in two old houses in the style of classicism with elements of baroque and modernism, built in 1912 by the famous Kharkiv architect Oleksii Beketov for the merchant and industrialist Ivan Ignatishchev.

The museum's collection was started in 1805 by the founder of Kharkiv University Vasyl Karazin, who bought for the university 2477 graphic works by Albrecht Dürer, Anton van Dyck, Francois Boucher and other Western European masters. The Department of Ukrainian and Russian Art of the XVI-XX centuries is based on the collections of the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Museum and nationally used private collections.

Now the funds of the Kharkiv Art Museum have more than 20 thousand exhibits. Works by Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Shishkin, Mykola Ge, Vasyl Surikov, Mykola Pymonenko, Fedir Krychevsky, Oleksandr Murashko, Yuri Narbut, Tetyana Yablonska, etc. are exhibited. A separate hall is dedicated to the work of Ilya Repin. In particular, one of the versions of Ilya Repin's painting "Cossacks write a letter to the Turkish sultan" is presented.

Krasnograd Museum of Local Lore. P. Martynovych is located in a historic building in the center of Krasnograd. It is named after the founder - Ukrainian painter, folklorist, ethnographer Porfiry Martynovych. The museum has 24,000 exhibits. In particular, the exposition tells about the construction of the Ukrainian fortified line and the Bilev fortress, from which the history of Krasnograd began. The section devoted to the history of the gas industry of Ukraine presents a model of a drilling rig, documents and photographs of drillers, samples of rocks.

Kupyansk City Museum of Local Lore is located in a building that was part of a complex of buildings destroyed during the Soviet era of the Intercession Cathedral (XIX century). The museum was opened in 1972. Its funds number more than 1 thousand items. Here are stored historical documents and rare photographs, exhibited archaeological, ethnographic, numismatic collections that fully reflect the history of Kupyansk.

Parkhomovsky Art Museum named after P. Luneva - a unique art gallery, nicknamed the "Rural Hermitage". The gallery was established in 1955 by the village teacher Panas Lunyov as a branch of the school museum. The basis of the exhibition were paintings purchased by Lunyov at the post-war Kharkiv flea market, as well as donated by Kharkiv artists. Subsequently, the collection was supplemented by paintings donated to the village gallery by many museums of the USSR. At Lunev's request, a unique exposition was placed in the former palace of Count Pidhorichany, which previously housed the office of the sugar factory. Today, the collection of the Parkhom Museum has about 6,000 exhibits: paintings by Rembrandt, Gauguin, Van Dyck, Benoit, Manet, Bryullov, Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Levitan, Repin, Vasnetsov, Roerich, Malevich, drawings by Shevchenko, posters by Mayakovsky. Four works by Pablo Picasso donated to the museum by I. Ehrenburg, including the famous painting "Dove of the World", which became a symbol of the anti-war movement.

The Hryhoriy Savvych Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum is located in the former estate of the Kovalevsky landowners, where the great Ukrainian philosopher died in 1794 (according to other sources, in the building of the former church-parish school). The house has a memorial room - a "quiet cell", where Skovoroda loved to work and in which he ended his life. In a cozy, well-planned park, maintained in perfect condition, preserved memorable places associated with the great thinker. This is the skeleton of a huge 700-year-old oak on the shore of a pond with a memorial sign (1972, sculptors L. Zhukovskaya, D. Sova), under the cover of which wrote a philosopher, a well and a huge wooden landlord's barn, on a wide lawn in front of which events organized by the museum are held. Not far from the manor house in the park is the grave of Hryhoriy Skovoroda. On the stylized tombstone under the roadside stone (1972, sculptors D. Sova, L. Zhukovskaya) carved a laconic and surprisingly capacious, worthy of a great philosopher author's epitaph: "The world caught me, but did not catch." A modest monument to Hryhoriy Skovoroda was erected at the entrance to the square (1972, sculptor I. Kavaleridze, architect V. Gnezdilov).

The local lore museum of Slobozhanske village in Kharkiv region acquaints with the nature and history of Slobozhanske region. The museum opened in 1989 in the former building of the manager of the Ziegler beet sugar and mechanical plants. Today, the museum has more than 3,000 exhibits. The main exposition tells about the historical past of the village of Slobozhansky and Krasnograd districts, in particular about the events of the Second World War. In the hall of ethnography you can get acquainted with the traditional Slobozhansky way of life. The museum also presents a collection of paintings by local artist Oleksiy Tykva.

The Kharkiv Historical Museum is named after the Ukrainian folklorist, ethnographer and literary critic and public figure Mykola Sumtsov. It was on his initiative in Kharkov in 1920 was established Museum of Sloboda Ukraine. Hryhoriy Skovoroda, from whom the history of the current museum began. In Soviet times, it was located in the premises of the Holy Intercession Monastery, but in 2003 it finally moved to the building of the former pawnshop, built in 1908-1912 by architect Borys Kornienko. During the reconstruction in 2021, a glass pavilion was added to it.

Now the stock collection of the Kharkiv Historical Museum has more than 330 thousand items. Archaeological finds from excavations of Bronze Age settlements, a set of things of the Old Russian period from the Donetsk settlement of the XI-XII centuries, numismatic collections, ethnographic collections, collections of weapons, flags, etc. are collected in four departments. In particular, the only hetman's flag of the 17th century in Ukraine was presented, which belonged to Ivan Mazepa and two other Ukrainian hetmans. Another key exhibit is the diorama "Kharkiv Fortress", which shows the appearance of the city in the seventeenth century.

Military equipment is presented in the open area, in particular the British heavy tank Mark V of the First World War and the Soviet T-34-85 of the Second World War. The nearby metro station "Historical Museum" was named in honor of the institution.

The Verkhniy Byshkyn Museum of Local Lore in the Kharkiv Region was founded in 1968. The exposition of the museum tells about the nature of the region and the history of the village of Verkhniy Byshkyn from ancient times to the present. The museum has an interesting ethnographic collection. Thematic exhibitions are held regularly to commemorative dates.