Attractions of Baryshivka

Since 1977, the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum has been operating in the former residential building of the landowner Hladysh, built in the 19th century. Later, a school was located here, where from 1920 to 1923, one of the most prominent neoclassical poets, Mykola Zerov, worked as a teacher.

The collection of the Baryshivka Local Lore Museum includes more than 4,000 exhibits, including tools of the Stone and Bronze Ages, ceramic fragments of the Trypillia culture, and other archaeological finds. A collection of women's clothing and embroidered towels of the 18th-20th centuries is presented.

A separate exhibition highlights the participation of the residents of Baryshivka in the events of the Second World War, the war in Afghanistan and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Products of local folk craftsmen are exhibited: painting, embroidery, wickerwork, etc.

The Taras Shevchenko Literary Museum in Baryshivka was created in 1987 on the initiative of Ukrainian historian, writer and statesman Vasyl Kostenko. It was his private collection of various editions of the works of the outstanding Ukrainian poet that formed the basis of the museum exposition.

The reason for founding the museum was the fact that Taras Shevchenko was in Baryshivka, which he mentions in the story "A walk with pleasure and not without morals". Here Shevchenko visited the family of Tymofiy Boryspolets, the father of Platon Boryspolets, his fellow student at the Academy of Arts. According to various sources, he could visit Baryshivka one or more times between 1843 and 1846. It was during this period that the poet visited the nearby Berezan, where he wrote the well-known poem "The Plundered Grave".

The main part of the collection consists of more than 500 editions of "Kobzar", including contemporary editions. Drawings and illustrations of the poet's works with gift inscriptions by artists, a collection of stamps, commemorative badges, ceramics with a portrait of Kobzar are presented. One of the four posthumous masks of Taras Shevchenko is kept in the museum.