Attractions of Mena

Mena Zoo is the only one in Ukraine located in a small town.

Founded in 1977 by local nature lover Hennadiy Polosmak. The former police sergeant organized a zoo corner in his house, which later grew into a private zoo, and then into a national zoo.

Today, the Mena Zoo occupies an area of almost 9 hectares. 560 animals of more than 120 species live here. Visitors are most interested in primates (monkeys Vasyl and Nina), tiger, lion, brown bears, bison, Nimogau antelopes, camel, crocodiles, pythons.

The Mena Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1950 as a museum room of local lore materials on the initiative of teacher Volodymyr Pokotylo and local historian and collector of antiquities Dmytro Kalibaba. In 1968, it received the status of "People's Museum", in 1972 it became the historical department of the Chernihiv Historical Museum. since 1982 - the Mena Museum of Local Lore. In 2011, the museum was named after one of the founders - Volodymyr Pokotylo.

The museum funds include about 17 thousand exhibits, which are located in four halls with a total area of ​​120 square meters. The archaeological collection contains over 2 thousand items, including two bronze hinged neck hryvnias (2nd century BC - 2nd century AD), bronze bracelets and a fibula of the 6th-7th centuries, a fragment of a sword of the 10th century. The museum houses interesting numismatic and ethnographic collections (everyday objects of peasants, landowners, as well as samples of clothing and embroidery of the 18th–19th centuries).

The exposition "Spiritual Shrines of the Mena region" is dedicated to the history of the Domnytskyi and Maksakivskyi monasteries and churches of the Mena region. There are sections dedicated to prominent compatriots and famous figures whose lives and activities are connected with the Mena region.