Attractions of Valky

The museum in the city of Valky was founded in 1977 as a public history museum on the initiative of writers Petro Panch and Vasyl Mynko. In 1978, it received the status of a "People's Museum". In 1992, it was reorganized into the Valky Museum of Local Lore.

It is located in an architectural monument of local importance, built at the beginning of the 20th century.

The museum's collection includes over 12 thousand exhibits that introduce the nature, history and culture of the region. The Valky Local Lore Museum Museum became one of the centers for studying the Holodomor in Ukraine, initiating the creation of the first documentary collections about the events of 1932-1933 in the Valky and Kharkiv regions.

Currently, the museum structure includes departments of history, literature and art, and nature. Among the most valuable exhibits are excavation materials of the Merchyk archaeological expedition (antique dishes, tools, remains of weapons), pottery works by Fedir Hnidiy and Borys Tsybulnyk, personal belongings of Petro Panch, Vasyl Mynko, Viktor Kochevsky, Viktor Haman, Yuliya Bulakhovska, Mykola Chastiy, Mykola Andrusenko; testimonies of victims of the 1932–1933 famine; collections of manuscripts, numismatics, Ukrainian embroidery, stuffed birds and animals.