Attractions of Volyn region

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.

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.

Novovolynsk Historical Museum was established recently - in 1998.

The following permanent expositions are presented in six halls: Ancient history of the city, Events of the Second World War, The beginning of formation of the city, Development of the city, Exhibition of church relics.

The funds have more than 4,000 exhibits.

The building of the old pharmacy was built in Lutsk by the Zlotsky family at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

The pharmacy laboratory used more than 200 species of medicinal plants to prepare medicines, ointments, tinctures and syrups.

In 1920, the extraction of artesian wells and the sale of mineral water were established here.

In 1882, Lesya Ukrayinka often bought medicines here.

The estate of the Pronsky princes, who owned Berestechko since 1544, has survived only partially, in a significantly rebuilt form.

According to legend, the Pronsky Palace was connected to the Trinity Church by an underground passage.

Currently, the Berestechko psychoneurological boarding school is located on the territory of the manor and the park.

The museum of the history of the village of Radovychi was opened in 2019 as one of the projects of the Amila ecopark. Located in the center of the village, opposite the village club.

In the premises of the restored village hut, there are five exhibition halls, where artifacts of the past, historical references, and documents of different years are collected. Antique household items, old photographs, unusual work tools, household and home interior items, weapons from the Second World War are presented.

The inn "Pylypove Podvirya" is located nearby.

The former manor of Prince Rinchynskyi is located at the exit from Berestechkoin the direction of Horokhiv (this place is still called Rinchyna).

Vocational and technical school No. 27 is currently located on the site of the manor. The park and the manor house, which now houses the school's library, have been preserved.

The historical and local lore museum in the town of Rozhyshche in Volyn was opened in 1977 on the initiative of local historians.

Now the museum consists of 4 departments: nature, ethnography, history and art. Valuable exhibits include the 17th-century icon "Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord" and wreaths of the same period, as well as sculptures of Catholic saints from the nearby village of Pozharka.

Separate expositions are devoted to the activities of the UPA in Volyn and the historical fate of Ukrainians deported from Poland to Ukraine in 1944-1946.

In the ethnographic department, the interior of a peasant's house of the middle of the 19th century is reproduced. 22 paintings for the art exhibition of the Rozhyshche Historical and Local History Museum were donated by an honorary resident of the city, artist Mykola Savchuk.

The wooden church of Saint George in Kutriv near Berestechko recently celebrated its 250th anniversary. The temple on the hill above the Styr River was built in 1761 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Berestechko.

During the Second World War, the bell tower was damaged.

As an architectural monument, Saint George's Church survived the Soviet times. The interior decoration has also been preserved. After the resumption of services in the 1970s, the iconostasis that was kept in Lutsk was returned to the church.

Recently, there was a threat of washing away the river bank and the collapse of the church, but thanks to the shore strengthening works, the architectural monument was saved from destruction.