Attractions of Brusyliv

The Historical Museum named after Ivan Ohiyenko in Brusyliv was founded in 1960 on public grounds in several rooms of the current office building of the "Renaissance" newspaper.

The organizer and first director of the museum was Yakiv Halaychuk. In the mid-1980s, the museum received a separate building, which it occupies to this day.

In 2009, the public museum became a department of the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local History and was named after a native of Brusyliv, Ivan Ohiyenko (Metropolitan Hilarion) - an outstanding scholar-historian, linguist and literary critic, poet and prose writer, editor and publisher, political scientist and theorist of canon law, public-political and church figure, translator of the Bible into the Ukrainian language. On August 21, 2010, in front of the museum, the first monument in Ukraine to Ivan Ohiyenko by the sculptor Anatoliy Burdeyny was opened.

The museum exposition is housed in two halls. One of them reflects the main stages of Ivan Ohiyenko's life and social activities. The exposition presents numerous works of Metropolitan Hilarion on the history of Ukraine, the history of the Ukrainian church, and the history of the Ukrainian language, which were published in Canada in the 1950s-1970s; a copy of the 1962 London edition of the Bible translated by Metropolitan Hilarion with a gift inscription to his daughter Lesia; photographs by Ivan Ohiyenko; family closet - dowry of Ivan Ohiyenko's wife; the interior of a Ukrainian house in the Kyiv province of the beginning of the 20th century, which helps to recreate the environment in which Ohiyenko himself lived.

The second hall presents materials that tell about the history of the Brusyliv region and the town of Brusyliv. The exposition presents a collection of solid coins (first half of the 16th century), which were found on the territory of the region; copy of "Gospel" from 1753, tools and products of Brusyliv craftsmen, household items; agricultural implements, traditional Ukrainian men's and women's clothing; photos, documents, books of famous people of Brusyliv region.