Attractions of Lutsk district

The Church of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica was built in Zhuravnyky in the neo-Rus style in 1905 on the site of an old wooden church.

The church was founded by Count Rafayil de Bossalini, a landowner of Italian origin from the nearby village of Brany, and his wife Kateryna.

The Church of Saint Demetrius belongs to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The wooden church of Saint George in Kutriv near Berestechko recently celebrated its 250th anniversary. The temple on the hill above the Styr River was built in 1761 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Berestechko.

During the Second World War, the bell tower was damaged.

As an architectural monument, Saint George's Church survived the Soviet times. The interior decoration has also been preserved. After the resumption of services in the 1970s, the iconostasis that was kept in Lutsk was returned to the church.

Recently, there was a threat of washing away the river bank and the collapse of the church, but thanks to the shore strengthening works, the architectural monument was saved from destruction.

The Museum of Science, Technology and Industrial Design (Museum of Technical Progress) opened in 2018 in the premises of the Adrenaline City Cultural and Entertainment Center on the northeastern outskirts of Lutsk, next to the Korsaks Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art.

The exposition acquaints visitors with the development of science and technology from the simplest devices of primitive times to the present.

The Museum of Science and Technology has 18 departments: music, architecture and design, light and optical, physico-chemical, military, medical, gaming, history of technological progress, physics and mechanics and others.

The Museum of Industrial Design presents examples of mass production at the intersection of art and technology. In particular, there are collections of watches, cameras, radio equipment, gramophones, tape recorders, telephones, computers. Among the interesting - a section of 3D puzzles from the famous Ukrainian toy manufacturer UGEARS.

All the exhibits can be touched with your hands.

Volyn Museum of Local Lore is the largest and oldest museum in Volyn. Founded in 1929.

It has been housed in the current building in the center of Lutsk since 1985. The funds contain more than 140 thousand exhibits representing nature, history, ethnography, art of the Volyn region.

The museum has a rich collection of natural materials, collections of geological minerals, plants and animals. The museum's collections are presented in the exposition, which consists of sections of nature, ancient and modern history, thematic exhibitions.

The exposition of the museum is located on an area of ​​more than 2 thousand square meters. m in 23 stationary and 9 exhibition halls. It is built on thematic (nature department) and thematic-chronological principles (history department).

The branches and departments of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore are the Kolodyazhne Literary Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrayinka, the Art Museum in Lutsk Castle, the Museum of the Volyn Icon, the Museum of the History of the Lutsk Brotherhood, and the Lypynsky Memorial Museum.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Crafts of Volyn is created.