Attractions of Volyn region

The Kivertsi Museum of Local Lore was founded in 2009.

The exposition presents more than 900 exhibits that tell about the history of the region from ancient times to the present.

Art exhibitions, excursions, master classes on folk art are held.

The Kortelisy Historical Museum was opened in 1980 in the Volyn village of Kortelisy together with the Memorial Complex for the Victims of Fascism. Since 2023, the museum is a part of the communal institution "Cultural Services Centre" of the Ratne settlement council

The main exposition of the museum tells about the Kortelisy tragedy of 1942, when German invaders from the "Nuremberg" company shot 2,875 inhabitants of the village (according to modern estimates - about 1,650) and burned all the houses in the village in retaliation for the actions of Soviet partisans of the local Voroshilov detachment. The central exhibits are the Burnt Village diorama and the Book of Remembrance, where the names of the dead Kortelisy residents are recorded. Personal belongings, awards, letters and photos of war veterans, weapons and ammunition from the battlefields are also presented.

The permanent exhibition "UPA in Ratne region" tells about the national liberation struggle. In the "Defenders of Ukraine" corner, you can see photos of Kortelisy residents who took part in the Russian-Ukrainian war, elements of their weapons and ammunition, and the flag of the special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Svityaz".

A separate exposition tells about the outstanding fellow villager, people's deputy of Ukraine, former director of the Kortelisy Museum, Vasyl Kornelyuk.

The memorial complex to the victims of fascism by sculptor Oleksiy Oliynyk and architect Anatoliy Korneev is located opposite the museum. The height of the sculpture with the pedestal is 6 meters.

Kovel Historical Museum is located in the central city park, named after Lesya Ukrayinka.

The exposition tells about the history of Kovel region from ancient times to the present day: weapons and jewelry of the XI-XIV centuries, objects of the Cossack era, the current blacksmith's fur and anvil of the late XIX century, blacksmith mechanism of the early twentieth century.

Traditional folk costumes of the region's inhabitants of the XIX-XX centuries are presented.

A monument to Lesya Ukrayinka has been erected nearby in the park.

The Kysylyn Village Museum was opened in 2023 on the initiative of the Volyn local historian Artur Alyoshin and with the financial support of local patrons. Located in the former premises of the veterinary medicine point, built in 1990.

Historical objects of Kysylyn, old maps, photographs and documents are presented at the exhibition stands. In particular, you can find out about the first mention of the village in historical documents and about the acquisition of city rights by Kysylyn, see lists of voters among the local population, lists of the Orthodox population, the composition of the fire brigade, etc.

The Liuboml Museum of Local Lore was created in 1973 by Dmytro Ostapyuk, a history teacher and local historian.

15,000 exhibits of the main fund. An archaeological collection, collections of numismatics, objects of folk life and ethnography are presented. Materials on the former owners of Liuboml: Ivan Vyhovsky, Pavlo Teterya, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky and Ksaveriy Branytsky are on display.

Also presented are materials about famous natives of Luboml region: theologian Severyn Lubomlchyk, artist Nataliya Uzhviy and others.

The museum is located on the 3rd floor of the Liuboml City Council.

The floodplain lake Liubyaz is located near the village of Liubyaz.

The length of the lake is 3.8 kilometers, the width is 2.5 kilometers, the area is 5.19 square kilometers, the average depth is 2.1 meters, the largest is 3.8 meters. The hydrological regime depends mainly on the Pripyat River, which flows through the northern part of the lake. The Korostyanka River flows into Lake Liubyaz from the southwest.

The banks are low, sometimes swampy. The shores are overgrown with reeds, there are sandy and clay beaches suitable for swimming. The lake is shallow, so it warms up well in the summer, there is minimal infrastructure for recreation, and it is popular among fishermen.

The Lopatensky historical and natural museum complex is located in the Lopaten tract near the village of Berestiane, on the territory of the Tsuman Pushcha National Nature Park, where Soviet partisans and UPA units were active in 1941-1943.

The central element of the memorial complex is the burial mound with the obelisk "To All the Living and the Dead in World War II", which is reached by a log alley with portraits of partisan commanders. The partisan dugouts located in a semicircle have been preserved: headquarters, commandant's platoon, hospital, operating room. You can see the partisan oven, a device for making homemade mines. The museum exposition "Our land during the Second World War" presents weapons, ammunition, documents and personal belongings of partisans.

The complex also includes the "Museum of the Volyn Forest" with a reconstructed forester's hut of the 19th century, an apiary, wooden sculptures and an ecological path around forest lakes (there are hiking and horse trails).

The Art Museum in Lutsk presents an outstanding collection of world and Ukrainian paintings, graphics and sculptures of different eras.

The exhibition is housed in the former building of the county office and noble courts, built in 1789 on the ruins of the princely palace of Lutsk Castle.

The collection of the Lutsk Art Museum was formed in the post-war years on the basis of the collection from the magnate gallery of the Radzyvill princes in the Castle in Olyka. European painting of the 17th and early 20th centuries, particularly from Italy, France, Germany, and Poland, is widely represented.

The pearl of the collection is the painting "Saint Jerome" (1644) - almost the only work in Ukraine by the outstanding Spanish artist of the "Golden Age" Jusepe de Ribera. The Lutsk Art Museum has one of the country's largest collections of Polish paintings (January Suchodolski, Jan Matejko, Józef Brandt and others), the core of which is a gallery of ceremonial portraits of princes Radziwills and other aristocrats of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among them, the portrait of Queen Anna of Austria, the wife of the Polish king Stefan Batory, and the brush of the court artist Martin Kober stand out. Another decoration of the museum's permanent exhibition is "Per procura wedding of Prince Mikolaj "the Black" Radziwill with Catherine of Austria (Gonzaga)" by Ksaveryj Geski.

Among the masterpieces of Ukrainian painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the painting "Storm at Sea" by the outstanding marine painter Ivan Ayvazovsky. The exposition also presents modern Ukrainian painting, the works of Volyn artists.

Zeman Lutsk Brewery was founded in 1888 by the Czech brewer Vatslav Zeman, whose father, Yozef Zeman, moved from the Czech Republic to Kvasyliv in Volyn in 1869.

In 1906, the wooden building of the factory was destroyed by fire, but two years later the brewery was rebuilt in stone. In 1913, the brewery reached its maximum productivity. Four varieties of beer were brewed here: "Stolove", "Sakura", "Pomegranate" and "Bok Beer".

In 1939, after Volyn joined the USSR, the Lutsk Brewery was nationalized. After Ukraine gained independence in 2004, the production of beer under the trademark "Zeman" was established in honor of the founder of the brewery Vatslav Zeman. Currently, 12 types of beer are brewed here.

The Lutsk Zoo is located on the territory of the Lesya Ukrayinka Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

The zoo exhibition consists of 42 species of fauna. In particular, lions, bears, red deer, bison, antelope, llama, porcupine, raccoon dogs, pheasants, peacocks, black swans and others are presented. In total, more than 150 animals and birds live in the Lutsk Zoo.

There is a summer cafe on the territory of the zoo.

Manevychi Museum of Local Lore is located in a modern building in the center of the village of Manevychi.

The museum has more than 8,000 exhibits. Exhibitions of nature and archeology, pre-war period, World War II, modernity are presented.

In the ethnographic collection: tools of agriculture and animal husbandry, handicrafts, clothing, utensils.

The medieval Manevychi boat (monoxyl), found on the banks of the Styr River in 2015, is now on display in a separate museum of one exhibit.

The museum of one exhibit "Manevychi boat-monoxyl" opened in 2021 at the Manevychi Museum of Local Lore.

The exhibition presents a medieval boat, found on the banks of the river Styr near the village of Starosillya in 2015. According to experts, the boat dates from 1223-1256. It is the largest and oldest historical and cultural object of underwater archeology in Ukraine. The monoxyl boat is made by hollowing out the core of the trunk of one solid tree, its length is 12 meters.

There are also materials about the history of the find and its restoration.

The Volyn Regional Museum of the Ukrainian Army and Military Equipment was established on the initiative of the public organization Dzherela.

The museum is located on the territory of a military town in the center of Lutsk, in the premises built in 1925.

The exposition presents 50 samples of military equipment and weapons. The permanent exhibition "Pages of Military History of the Volyn Region" has been opened.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary was built in Liuboml in 1884 on the site of an old church known since the 16th century.

A typical example of pseudo-Rus style in the monumental wooden architecture of Volyn.

In 1961, the church was closed, but in 1990 it was returned to the parishioners and restored.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in the village of Ratne was built in 1793.

The church is an architectural monument of local importance.