Attractions of Oleksandriia

The school historical and ethnographic museum "Crafts of Volyn" was opened in the village of Oleksandriia on the basis of the Regional Art Lyceum in 2011.

The museum exposition is presented in three thematic sections - "Interior of a Ukrainian house of the late 19th - early 20th centuries", "Crafts and crafts of Volyn and Volyn Polissya of the late 19th - early 20th centuries" and "Modern crafts of Volyn".

The first section presents the internal layout of Ukrainian housing, typical for Volyn in the late 19th - early 20th centuries: a three-part type of hut, a living room and a utility room for storing food, minor repairs and seasonal clothing, a stove.

The department of crafts of this period presents the main and auxiliary crafts of Volhynia and Volyn Polissya: woodworking (copperworking, carpentry, weaving), blacksmithing, weaving, pottery, wrestling and fishing.

Modern crafts of Volyn are represented by products of masters of Rivne and Volyn regions from various types of decorative and applied arts: artistic woodworking, pottery, artistic ceramics, glass painting, leather processing, wood painting, thread printing, artistic embroidery, straw weaving, straw plastic, wickerwork, beadwork, floristry, fine arts, paintings from poplar fluff, folk toys, Easter eggs, blacksmithing, artistic weaving from natural materials, processing of torn flax, non-woven tapestry, author's doll, motanka doll.