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Cherkasy Art Museum

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The Cherkasy Art Museum is housed in the former Communist Party's city committee, which was vacated after the August 1991 events. The exposition is formed from the former private collections of Count Bobrynsky, Princes Lopukhin, Bilokopytov, which were transferred in 1918 to the Cherkasy Historical and Pedagogical Museum named after Taras Shevchenko. The Department of Decorative and Applied Arts introduces the folk art of the middle Dnieper. The second chapter presents the iconography of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the beautiful portrait painting of the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Map pin icon Khreschatyk Street, 29 Cherkasy

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Cherkasy Museum of Local Lore

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Cherkasy Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building built in 1985 in the historic center of the city, near the Hill of Fame (Castle Hill). The project was designed by local architects Kondratsky, Sobchuk, Fursenko. In 30 halls there are sections of the nature of the region, archeology, ethnography, history of the region XIV - beg. XX century, as well as new and modern history from 1917 to the present. A total of 12,000 exhibits were presented. Cossack flags and a copy of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's first letter to Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich asking for help in the war with Poland, written in Cherkasy on June 8, 1648, are kept here. Other rare objects of Cossack times are presented, including stove tiles of the second floor. XVII century with a relief plot "Three Musketeers" and the inscription "Zholdak".

Map pin icon Slavy Street, 1 Cherkasy

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Kobzar Museum (Tsybulsky House)

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The Tsibulsky House in Cherkasy is a historic building in the city center, built in the middle of the 19th century. Belonged to the family of merchants of the first guild, was the tallest building in the city at the time. From July 18 to 22, 1859, Taras Shevchenko stayed here with his friend E. Tsybulsky. In Soviet times, a museum of one book was opened here - "Kobzar" by Shevchenko. Lifetime and posthumous editions of the writer are presented, in particular the rare "Kobzar" of 1840.

Map pin icon Baida-Vyshnevetsky Street, 37 Cherkasy

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