Attractions of Kirovohrad region

The memorial museum of Marko Kropyvnytsky was opened in Kropyvnytskyi in 1982 in the building where the luminary of the Ukrainian theater lived for almost 20 years.

Here the playwright wrote his classic plays, and in the early 1880s, he formed a celebrated Ukrainian theater troupe.

The exposition of the museum consists of several chapters that tell about the family of the playwright and actor, about his childhood and studies at the gymnasium and university, about his path in art as the founder of the first professional Ukrainian theater - the Theater of Corypheivs.

A monument to Marko Kropyvnytsky was erected near the Coryphaei Theater.

The landscape complex "Monastyryshche Tract" is located on the banks of the Ingul river between the villages of Inhulske and Zavutrovo.

This is a pre-Christian temple, a pagan religious building with altars and pagan symbols on the stone. In the center of the tract is a large oval rock, which is washed by the Ingul River on one side, and is framed by a wide circular amphitheater on the other. The height of the rock is 13 meters, length - 50 meters, width - 20 meters. The northern, eastern and western walls are vertical, and the southern one is sloping. The whole building is paved with huge rectangular stone blocks. On the upper platform in various places there are many large shaped blocks - the result of the glacier's descent and weathering (according to another version, the figures were once carved by hand).

According to legend, a Cossack treasure is hidden in the rock. The entrance to the treasury is somewhere above, the exit is underwater in the middle of the river.

Plants characteristic of the southern part of the steppe region have been preserved on the slopes of the canyon and adjacent areas of Ingul.

Today it is a landscape reserve of national significance "Monastyryshche".

The monument "Guardian Angel of Ukraine" was installed in Kropyvnytskyi for the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ and for the 250th anniversary of the city.

Along the perimeter of the base of the column is the inscription: "God, save Ukraine."

During the creation of the monument, the craftsmen used granite from the Kapustinsky, Krupsky and Voynovsky deposits. The monument to the Guardian Angel was created by sculptor Anatoliy Honchar and architect Vitaliy Kryvenko.

Museum and nature reserve "Tobilevychi" in the village of Arsenivka was founded as a reserve "Fatherland of Ivan Karpenko-Karyi" to the 150th anniversary of the birth of this outstanding Ukrainian writer, playwright and theater actor.

It was in Arsenivka that Ivan Tobilevych was born in 1845 - the future great artist Karpenko-Karyi.

The Tobilevych family lived in Arsenivka for ten years. Karpenko-Karyi's father, Karpo Tobilevych, managed the estate of landowner Zolotnytskyi here. An old classicist manor house still stands in the park on the shore of the pond, and nearby is a manor cellar. Historical buildings have preserved authentic elements of contemporary architecture.

On the territory of the former manor estate, built in the first half of the 19th century, where there was a school in Soviet times, the Museum and Nature Reserve "Tobilevychi" is now located. Its exposition part still needs filling and design.

In 2021, the territory of the manor estate was declared a 8.7-hectare park-monument park of garden and park art "Tobilevychi". Here you can meet representatives of the red book flora and fauna of Ukraine.

A commemorative sign has been installed on the territory of Nizhny Skver, where the Tobilevych house was located, where Ivan Tobilevych was born.

Bobrynets City Museum of Local Lore in Kirovohrad Region bears the name of Mykola Smolenchuk, a Ukrainian writer and researcher of the life and work of luminaries of the Ukrainian theater, who founded this institution in 1959.

Now the museum has more than 5,500 exhibits. In particular, the archeological collection, household items of different epochs, ancient weapons and money are presented.

The main exposition presents photos, documents, letters, invitations related to the figure of Marko Kropyvnytskyi. Among the unique things - a shawl of the famous Ukrainian actress Mariya Zankovetska, as well as furniture from the houses where the luminaries stopped during a tour in Bobrynets.

Preserved authentic table, chair, mirror, gramophone. The "Ukrainian Room" hall tells about the traditional life of the region's inhabitants.

The military hall presents materials about the Second World War and modern war in eastern Ukraine, and a corner in memory of the Hero of the Heavenly Hundred Viktor Chmilenko has been opened.

The Museum Room of Novomyrhorod Archaeological and Local History Exploration was opened in 2013 at the initiative of the famous researcher of the history of the region Petro Ozerov. It is located on the first floor of the Novomyrhorod City Council.

The exposition presents about 2,000 exhibits, a large part of which was found by Petro Ozerov during archaeological and local history research in the territory of Novomyrhorod region.

In particular, the tools of the people of the Stone Age, fragments of Trypillyan ware, artifacts from Scythian settlements (in particular, the akinak sword), weapons and jewelry from the time of the expansion of the Goths, iron objects from the period of Kyivan Rus, Cossack weapons and ammunition, as well as documents and photographs are exhibited. and household objects of the townspeople of the 19th and 20th centuries.

During tours, the museum owner allows visitors to touch the exhibits, take them in their hands, and some even try to use them for their intended purpose.

The Kropyvnytskyi Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Shymanovskyi was founded in 1991 on the initiative of musicologist Olha Levtonova. At this time, it temporarily does not have its own premises, the exhibits are stored in storage rooms.

The museum is dedicated to the Yelysavethrad period in the life of the outstanding Polish composer Karol Shymanovskyi, who was born in 1882 in Ukraine - in the family estate in the Chyhyryn region. In Yelysavethrad, where his family lived during the winter, he studied at the music school of Neuhaus, where he began his concert and journalistic activities.

The memorial building of the Shymanovskyi on Hoholya Street, which was in a state of disrepair, was actually rebuilt in 1991-1997, but the construction was never completed. The museum was temporarily located in Music School No. 1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus, but in 2020, in connection with the major renovation of the school building, the museum exhibits were dismantled.

The museum's collections include about 10,000 exhibits. Among them, the most valuable are autographs, belongings and portraits of Karol Szymanowski, documents and photographs of the Neuhaus and Blumenfeld families.

Currently, the Karol Shymanovskyi Museum of Musical Culture organizes separate exhibitions at other venues, conducts thematic tours of the city and works online.

The Novhorodka Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the urban-type village of Novhorodka. Founded in 1974 at the local cultural center, it has been operating in the current premises since 1991.

The exhibition "Archaeological finds of Novhorodka region" presents research materials of two mounds located near Novhorodka, belonging to different archaeological cultures - from the 3rd millennium BC to the 8th-9th centuries AD. The oldest exhibit is an ammonite (fossilized shell) about 25 million years old, found in the Novhorodka quarry.

The exhibition "Novhorodka region - Cossack Territory" is devoted to the period of the founding of Novhorodka in the second half of the 18th century. Household items and weapons from the Cossack period are exhibited here. The ethnographic collection exhibits towels of the 19th and 20th centuries, clothes, jewelry, household items and tools.

A special exhibit is a unique towel dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, started by the Petrokorbivka hromada, which was embroidered by 25 craftsmen from each rural hromada of the district over the course of two years.

Employees conduct tours of museum exhibits and organize trips along tourist routes of the region.

The Novoarkhanhelsk Museum of Local Lore in the Kirovohrad Region was founded in 2003 and is located in the building of the former Ukraina cinema on the central square of Novoarkhanhelsk.

The museum's collection includes more than 5,500 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from Paleolithic to modern times. In particular, collections of rocks and minerals, coins and banknotes are presented.

The Hall of Arts acquaints visitors with the artistic heritage of the region - products of decorative and applied arts, paintings by local artists.

The Oleksandr Osmyorkin Memorial Art Museum was created in 1985 on the basis of the memorial building in Kropyvnytskyi, where this outstanding artist and teacher spent his childhood and youth.

The building is an architectural monument of national importance, built in 1899 according to the own project of the famous Yelisavetgrad architect Yakiv Pauchenko, the artist's uncle. The project of its reconstruction was developed by the artist's widow, architect Nadiya Osmyorkina.

The exposition of the museum is placed in three halls. The memorial hall invites visitors to get acquainted with the life and work of Oleksandr Osmyorkin. Painting and graphic works of the master, studio drawings of the 1920s and 1930s, his personal belongings, including items of creative work - easel, palette, sketch book, brushes, still life collection, memorial items from the Pauchenko-Osmyorkin house are presented.

Painting and graphic works of Osmyorkin's students, who donated more than 50 of their works on the eve of the museum's opening, are exhibited in two exhibition halls.

The Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova was created in 1967.

For a long time, the museum worked on a public basis, in 1991 it received state status. It bears the name of Antonina Khudyakova, who was the director of the museum in 1980-1991.

The total number of exhibits of the main fund is over 17,000 items. The exposition of the museum is located in two departments - historical and natural.

In addition, the ethnography of the region is represented separately by a model of a Ukrainian house and various household items: dishes, household utensils, work tools, etc.

The museum houses collections of paper money and coins of different eras and countries, a selection of old photographs.

Among the museum's valuable exhibits are personal belongings, a spacesuit, devices, equipment for training and work at the orbital station of cosmonaut Leonid Popov, a native of Oleksandriia.

"Dmytro Chyzhevsky's House" is a branch of the Oleksandriia City Museum Center named after Antonina Khudyakova.

The Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1987 on the initiative of the public of the Oleksandrivka urban-type village. The basis of the exposition was archeology items, Tsvitne ceramics, Ukrainian embroidered towels, weapons from the Second World War and other materials collected by enthusiasts.

The first hall depicts the history of Oleksandrivka and the entire region from the earliest times until 1917. The exposition about the era of the Cossacks is especially interesting, because the nearby village of Birky was owned by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, here he received ambassadors of foreign countries, gathered troops for the campaign against Poland, as evidenced by numerous objects of the 17th century found in Birky. Also interesting is the exposition "Ukrainian house of the early twentieth century", which presents various objects of folk life.

The second hall is dedicated to the troubled times of 1920-1930, when the Soviet-Ukrainian war, collectivization and the Holodomor were raging in the region. The history of the region during the Second World War is an exposition of the third hall. The fourth hall is dedicated to the history of the region in the postwar period and the present. There is a department of nature and an art department, where the works of local masters are presented.

Branches of the Oleksandrivka Museum of Local Lore are the Levko Matsievych Room-Museum in Oleksandrivka and the Rozumivka Village History Museum.

The People's Memorial Museum of the outstanding pianist Henrikh Neyhauz was opened in 1981 at Music School No. 1 in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (then Kirovohrad), which he was the founder of and which now bears his name.

Since 1933, the music school has been located in a two-story building in the center of the city, which once belonged to the family of the composer Yuliy Meytus, and is now an architectural monument. This is one of the oldest state music schools in Ukraine.

The initiators of the opening of the museum of a country musician at the school were its director Viktor Revenko and teacher of the piano department Ella Torhovetska. They were the main collectors of museum funds.

Historical documents, photographs and personal belongings belonging to Henrikh Neyhauz and his family are presented in two exhibition halls of the museum. 16 editions in different languages of the world of the main theoretical work of Henrikh Neyhauz "On the Art of Piano Playing" are exhibited. The grand piano and bureau of the composer and musicologist Heorhiy Polyanovskyi are also presented.

On the 125th anniversary of the musician, a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the facade of the building of the music school, and a bust of Henrikh Neyhauz by the Lviv sculptor Volodymyr Tsisaryk was installed in front of the building.

The Petrove Museum of Local Lore is located in the center of the urban-type village of Petrove, in a neat square next to the village cultural center. Works since 1967.

The exposition in four halls tells about the nature, history and culture of the part of the Kirovohrad region, where the village is located. In particular, some archaeological materials, an ethnographic selection, household objects of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

The Second World War section has a large collection of fragments of weapons, cartridges, cartridges, military uniforms and equipment, found or given to the museum for preservation by eyewitnesses.

A special place is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, when a large part of the inhabitants of this region suffered from the artificial famine arranged by the Bolsheviks.

The building of the railway station "Fundukliyivka" of the Odesa Railway was built in Oleksandrivka in 1876 at the expense of Kyiv governor Ivan Fundukley, a scientist and philanthropist who owned the surrounding estates in the second half of the 19th century.

Named in his honor.