Attractions of Dnipropetrovsk region

The Vasylkivka Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1973. Located in a separate building in the center of Vasylkivka.

The museum collection consists of 2,600 museum objects that tell about the history, ethnography and nature of this region. Among them are flint tools of primitive man, things from the times of Zaporozhzhian Sich, an ethnographic collection, typical objects of the era of industrialization. Exhibitions of works of folk artists are held regularly.

In front of the entrance to the museum is a collection of Polovtsian stone sculptures.

Velykomykhailivka Museum of History and Local Lore in Dnipropetrovsk region was founded in 1986.

Housed in a historic building erected in the early XX century.

The museum fund has more than 3,000 exhibits. The exposition in eight halls covers the distant past of the region, the history of the founding of the village of Velykomykhailivka (former name – Dibrivka) by the Cossacks in 1776, its development during the XIX - early XX centuries, the Ukrainian revolution and the participation of local residents in the insurgent movement Nestor Makhno, World War II. In particular, the exposition acquaints with the battle route of the 346th Debaltseve Red Banner Rifle Division, which in 1943 liberated the village from German occupation.

Memorial signs have been erected near the museum in honor of the village's founder, the legendary Cossack Mykhaylo, as well as in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Dibrivka battle of the insurgent detachments of Nestor Makhno and Fedosiy Shchus with Austrian troops in 1918.

Zhovti Vody Historical Museum was established in 1985.

The exhibition is housed in ten halls on two floors. The first hall is devoted to the events of the Ukrainian People's Liberation War of 1648-1654 and the victory of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi at Zhovti Vody.

The second hall presents the development of the village of Zhovta Rika and the extraction of iron ore: models of the Lviv quarry, the Kapitalna mine, and the village of Zhovta Rika in 1913.

Separate expositions are dedicated to the events of the Second World War and the development of the city in the post-war years. The layout of the city of Zhovti Vody is presented.

In five rooms on the second floor, collections of watches, minerals, numismatics, paintings, graphics, artistic embroidery, and sculpture are exhibited.