Attractions of Khoroshiv

The Museum of Precious and Decorative Stones in Khoroshiv was created in 1996 on the basis of the collection of minerals and rocks of the local enterprise "Kvartssamotsvity", which has been engaged in industrial quartz mining in Khoroshiv since the 1930s.

The museum collects unique minerals from Volyn chamber pegmatites, samples of minerals and rocks from Ukraine, CIS countries, Europe, America, Africa. In total, there are 1.7 thousand exhibits. In particular, unique crystals of quartz, topaz and beryl from the Volyn Morion deposit are presented.

In 2001, the museum was granted the status of "Scientific object, which is the national property of Ukraine".

The park "Horoshki Castle" in Khoroshiv was laid out in the 18th century on the high bank of the Irsha River on the site of the medieval castle of the Lithuanian princely family Sapieha (defensive earthen ramparts and ditches have been preserved).

The estate in Horoshki belonged to the commander Mykhaylo Kutuzov from 1796, he visited it in 1802-1805. In the 19th century, there was a palace in the center of the park that belonged to Kutuzov, and then to his descendants (it burned down in 1919).

About 60 ancient oaks have been preserved.

Khoroshiv People's History Museum was opened in 1988 in the town center.

Currently, the museum's collection includes more than 1.5 thousand exhibits. Including - tools of ancient people (stone hammers, axes, chisels, scrapers, etc.); wooden household items of Polishchuks (loom, spinning wheel, ruble, combs for combing flax, etc.); peaches, samovars; maps, land merchants, bills, paper and metal money; home-woven towels, shirts; military awards during the Second World War and more.

Noteworthy is the "Geometric Plan" (1906) on the sale by the landlady Trubetska to the peasant Gefka of three tenths of land in the village of Horoshky (old name Khoroshova).

The museum also has an exposition "Kutuzov and Horoshki", dedicated to the commander's stay on his estate in Horoshki.