Zhytomyr

The Museum of Ancient Instruments "Craftsman's Yard" in Zhytomyr is located at the Kroshnya railway station.

Every item in the exhibition is an original. The entire collection includes several thousand exhibits, including 115 examples of axes.

Presented are kerosene all-weather lamps for railway workers and policemen with a tricolor semaphore, an ancient manual device for roasting coffee beans while stirring them, a copy of an ancient forge, in which air is supplied by real Austrian bellows from the end of the 19th century.

Also in the collection are tools intended for production, the technology of which is considered lost.

The Roman Catholic Concafedral Church of Saint Sophia with a bell tower 26 meters high is considered one of the main architectural monuments of Zhytomyr thanks to a successful combination of late Renaissance and Baroque styles.

The church was built in the 18th century on Zhytomyr's Castle Square on the initiative of Bishop Samiylo Ozhyha, and was reconstructed in the 19th century using classicism techniques. The thickness of the brick walls reaches 2 meters. The facade is divided into two tiers, the house is topped by towers with sharp spiers. One of the pylons of the building is decorated with a bas-relief created by the famous pianist and composer Yuliush Zarembskyi.

The rich interior decoration - stucco and wall paintings - has been preserved. Currently, it is an active Catholic cathedral of the parish of Saint Sophia.

In 2011, a monument to Pope John Paul II was erected in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral.

The memorial house-museum of Academician Serhiy Korolov in Zhytomyr is a part of the Museum of Cosmonautics named after Korolov, located opposite the main building of the exhibition "Space".

The first museum in the apartment, where the future rocket scientist, a leading designer of Soviet space rockets, was born in 1907, opened in 1970. 7 years later, the memorial part was supplemented by a new exposition about the life and career of the general designer.

The museum recreates the atmosphere of the apartment in which the Korolov family lived at the beginning of the XX century. The exposition includes many materials, documents, personal belongings, which were donated to the museum by relatives and colleagues of Korolov.

Photographs, utensils, interior items belonging to the Queen's family, notes and drawings made by the genius designer, his costume and even a strand of hair from the very first haircut - all this can be seen during a tour of the museum.

The National Museum of Cosmonautics named after Serhiy Korolov was opened in 1970 in Zhytomyr, where in 1907 the future founder of the practical development of outer space was born.

The memorial part of the museum is located in a small house in which the Korolov family lived at the beginning of the 20th century. The interiors were restored according to his mother's memories.

The exposition of the space pavilion, opened in 1991, presents the originals and models of spacecraft, spacesuits and other equipment of astronauts. Among them are a technological sample of the Soyuz spacecraft, a model of the Lunokhod-2, and the original of the Soyuz-27 spacecraft, which has been in space. One of the most valuable exhibits is a capsule with the soil of the Moon, donated by NASA.

The museum actively uses modern museum technologies and innovative methods of working with the audience. In particular, during the children's excursions, a robot-assistant guide Mekkanoid is used, who recognizes voice commands, moves, jokes and even dances. In the museum you can book an interactive tour "Star Aeneas", which uses equipment such as simulators to train professional pilots. With the help of virtual reality glasses, visitors can visit the Moon or Venus.

Zhytomyr Museum of Cosmonautics provides a high level of accessibility. There is a ramp at the entrance, there are no thresholds and stairs in the exposition rooms, adapted excursions and an inclusive toilet are available.

The modernized Gothic water tower is one of the symbols of old Zhytomyr.

It was built in 1898 according to the project of architect Arnold Ensh.

After the commissioning of the new "Vodokanal" complex, the need to use separate water towers disappeared.

Currently, it is an architectural monument of local importance.