Attractions of Konotop district

The Aviation Museum in Konotop is a department of the Konotop City Museum of Local Lore of Oleksandr Lazarevsky. The history of the museum began in 2004 with the observation deck of the Konotop air base, where three helicopters of Mil family were installed. To date, the exhibition presents the L-39 aircraft, as well as seven different helicopters KB Mil, in particular the world's only surviving to this day air control point Mi-22. In addition, you can see the military bunker during the German-Soviet war.

Krolevets Museum of Local Lore was established in 2000 on the basis of the city history museum opened in 1971. The museum occupies an old wooden house in the city center. The exposition tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the end of the Second World War, about the culture and art of Krolevets. A separate hall presents the history of weaving, the art of which Krolevets was famous in the XVIII century.

The Ethnographic Museum of Goryun Culture in the village of Nova Sloboda opened in 2017 as a branch of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Putivl. Presents a unique culture of Goryuns - a small ethnic group living in Putivl region. According to researchers, it is an autochthonous ancient Slavic population that has preserved its original culture, language and archaic features in everyday life. The museum exposition recreates the estate of the Goryuns of the late XIX - early XX centuries. The interior of the house presents furniture, various household items, clothes, etc. Here and ancient icons, and embroidered towels, and a cradle, and a loom. In farm buildings - barns, barns, windmills - exhibited tools, other agricultural equipment. In addition, in the Goryun courtyard you can see a crane well and a rare kind of cellar – a neck pit.

The museum is located in a small one-story mansion in the city center, which belonged in the XIX century to the landowner Cherepov. Almost three thousand exhibits reveal the history of the city and its environs from ancient times to the present day. The museum presents - a closet of the XVIII century, which belonged to Hetman Ivan Mazepa; the chair of the Russian imposter False Dmitry the First; the bell was donated to the city by Tsar Mikhail Romanov; bull's jaws with drawings found in Molchansky bog.