Attractions of Khorostkiv

Khorostkiv Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2022 as a structural unit of the Cultural and Tourist Information Center of Khorostkiv.

The museum is located in the historic building of the New Palace of Counts Semensky-Levytsky. The two-storey neo-baroque residential building in the complex with the horse arena was built in 1837 by the Italian architect Botochchyni next to the Old Palace of the XVIII century in the style of classicism. Until recently, the New Palace housed the Khorostkiv Music School and the City Library for Adults.

Now the museum of local lore is in the process of forming a collection. The exhibition will feature ancient embroidery, icons, household items, historical photographs, old prints and more.

The Semensky-Levytsky estate in Khorostkiv consists of two palaces and service buildings located around the perimeter of a circular square.

The old one-story palace was built at the end of the 18th century by Count Yuzef Kalasantiy Levytsky. It is a rather modest building in the style of classicism with six-column porticoes on the front and park facades.

Nearby in the 19th century, Vilhelm Stanislav Semensky-Levytsky built a new two-story neo-baroque palace designed by an Italian architect. Botochchyni. There are service buildings and a horse arena opposite.

After 1939, the estate was nationalized, now the buildings house the Podillya Research Station of the Ternopil Institute of Agricultural Production of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. For some time, the Old Palace housed the exposition of the Museum of Nature, but now it is privately owned.

In 1972, a large park on the territory of the manor became the basis of the Khorostkiv Arboretum (14 hectares), where plants from many continents are represented: philodendron (tulip tree), paulownia (Adam tree), peony, ginkgo two-bladed (dinosaur tree), dinosaur tree), various species of sycamores and magnolias, cedars, cypresses and other exotic plants.