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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.
Independence Avenue, 4 Kharkiv
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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.
Zhon Myronosyts Street, 11 Kharkiv
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.
University Street, 5 Kharkiv