Genichesk

Henichesk Museum of Local Lore

Description

  • It was created in 1956 as the Museum of the People’s Friendshipon a voluntary basis.
  • Visitors are offered to familiarize 8 exhibition halls

It was created in 1956 as the Museum of the People’s Friendshipon a voluntary basis.In 1959, it was re-opened as a Museum of Regional History.Visitors are offered to familiarize 8 exhibition halls: the nature of the region, crafts, ancient history, the ethnography hall, the hall of memory and glory, the hall of national cultures’unity,and two exhibition halls.

It was created in 1956 as the Museum of the People’s Friendshipon a voluntary basis.In 1959, it was re-opened as a Museum of Regional History.Visitors are offered to familiarize 8 exhibition halls: the nature of the region, crafts, ancient history, the ethnography hall, the hall of memory and glory, the hall of national cultures’unity,and two exhibition halls.

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HISTORY

  • For more than 60 years of its work, interesting, sometimes rare and unique, exhibits have been collected in the museum: a stella of the Sarmatian period, bones of the southern elephant (mammoth), bowsprit (decoration of the bow) of a medieval ship (“head of the aurochs”),antique amphoras, pictures of the national artist N.V. Kupryianov and theorist of painting M.M.
  • Exhibitions of works by artists, photo artists, masters of arts and crafts and children’s crafts, meetings with poets and local lore historians,as well as presentations of new books by local authors are regularly heldthere.

For more than 60 years of its work, interesting, sometimes rare and unique, exhibits have been collected in the museum: a stella of the Sarmatian period, bones of the southern elephant (mammoth), bowsprit (decoration of the bow) of a medieval ship (“head of the aurochs”),antique amphoras, pictures of the national artist N.V. Kupryianov and theorist of painting M.M. Pysanko, vases, chasing, intarsia—gifts to the Museum from friends from Georgia, the Czech Republic, the Vietnamese Embassy in Kiev,archival documents of the period of the region’s occupation by the fascists in 1941-1943, household items, clothing, dishes of the 18th–19thcenturies.In the Nature of the Regionhall, you can see two dioramas called “The Sea of Azov” and “Byriuchyi Island” (the authors-artists are Volodymyr Sokolovand Mykola Bozhkov).Exhibitions of works by artists, photo artists, masters of arts and crafts and children’s crafts, meetings with poets and local lore historians,as well as presentations of new books by local authors are regularly heldthere.The Museum of Local Lore cooperates with historians, researchers, and local historians of Ukraine and the Kherson Region.

For more than 60 years of its work, interesting, sometimes rare and unique, exhibits have been collected in the museum: a stella of the Sarmatian period, bones of the southern elephant (mammoth), bowsprit (decoration of the bow) of a medieval ship (“head of the aurochs”),antique amphoras, pictures of the national artist N.V. Kupryianov and theorist of painting M.M. Pysanko, vases, chasing, intarsia—gifts to the Museum from friends from Georgia, the Czech Republic, the Vietnamese Embassy in Kiev,archival documents of the period of the region’s occupation by the fascists in 1941-1943, household items, clothing, dishes of the 18th–19thcenturies.In the Nature of the Regionhall, you can see two dioramas called “The Sea of Azov” and “Byriuchyi Island” (the authors-artists are Volodymyr Sokolovand Mykola Bozhkov).Exhibitions of works by artists, photo artists, masters of arts and crafts and children’s crafts, meetings with poets and local lore historians,as well as presentations of new books by local authors are regularly heldthere.The Museum of Local Lore cooperates with historians, researchers, and local historians of Ukraine and the Kherson Region.

INTERESTING FACTS

  • On January 1, 2019, the total collection of the Museum of Local Lore is 11,548 storage units. The main collection has 9,865 storage units, which belongs to the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine. The number of items of the auxiliary scientific collection is 1719 storage units.
  • On January 1, 2019, the total collection of the Museum of Local Lore is 11,548 storage units. The main collection has 9,865 storage units, which belongs to the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine. The number of items of the auxiliary scientific collection is 1719 storage units.