Attractions of Poltava region

The Karlivka Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1967 and has been housed in a historic building in the center of Karlivka since 2001, opposite the central square.

The museum has 6,000 exhibits. The exposition in 14 halls tells about the nature and history of Karlivka Region from the distant past to the present.

The permanent exhibition of works of the honored master of national creativity, the founder of studio of fine arts of the Karlivka Gymnasium Ihor Nikolayevsky is presented.

The first folk museum of local lore was organized in Khorol by ethnographer Volodymyr Biryukov back in 1917, but in the 1930s it was closed by the Soviet authorities.

The current exposition has been operating since 1995 and is housed in a historical building of the beginning of the 20th century, which is an architectural monument of local importance.

The nature department presents a diorama, stuffed animals, and geological samples.

The archaeological collection includes ancient weapons, ceramics, and stone tools.

In the department of ethnography, the interior of a village house is recreated, folk costumes and household items are exhibited.

A diorama of the "Khorol Yama" death camp is on display.

A branch of the Khorol Museum of Local Lore is the Novoavramivka Local Lore Museum.

The Kobeliaky Ecopark opened in 2018 as a municipal enterprise of the Kobeliaky City Council. It is located in a green area near the forest on the banks of the Vorskla River on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The ecopark is based on a contact zoo, which is home to such exotic animals as ostriches, kangaroos, monkeys, and porcupines. In addition, deer, foxes, nutria, the wild boar family are more common here, as well as domestic ponies, donkeys, sheep, goats, etc.

The Kobeliaky ecopark has recreation areas where you can conveniently have a picnic. Pony riding is offered, and there are several photo zones.

The Kobeliaky Museum of Literature and Art is named after its founder, a local teacher, local historian, artist and writer Oleksii Kulyk. It was thanks to his active work that the museum opened in 1982 (a memorial plaque was installed).

The museum is located in a separate building built in 1913. It presents about 2,000 exhibits.

The exposition tells about outstanding creative personalities of Kobeliaky region: bandura player Tamara Hrytsenko, poet Pavlo Usenko, writers Pavlo Zahrebelnyi and Oles Honchar, poetess Lyudmyla Ovdienko, artists Dmytro Levytskyi and Anatolii Petrytskyi, and many other representatives of the creative and scientific intelligentsia.

A special place in the exposition is reserved for representatives of the Georgian community of Kobeliaky and the surrounding area.

Also in the museum you can learn about the origin of the name of the city, hear legends about its foundation, and get acquainted with historical facts about the development of the Kobeliaky.

Kotelva Museum of Local Lore is temporarily housed in the building of the House of Culture in the center of Kotelva.

An ethnography room has been set up here for the re-exposition.

The museum exposition presents archeological finds from the Scythian settlement of Bilsk, which is located near Kotelva. This is not only mass household products, especially utensils, but also works of art of ancient and local Scythian masters (gold ring, mirror, cruciform plates, etc.). In particular, the museum presents items from the unique "Blazhkiv treasure" of the Slavic era.

The exposition also tells about the development of the region in the times of the Cossacks.

The manor in Vyshniaky was built in 1805 by Colonel Radion Palaments from Hadyach, probably according to the project of the famous architect Mykola Lviv.

The two-story house in the style of classicism is located on a slope going down to the Khorol River, and was once surrounded by a park and an orchard. The compositional center of the building is an oval hall topped by a dome with a low spire. Above the main entrance is a carved wooden balcony-terrace resting on massive stone pillars. On the park facade, four pillars support a semicircular balcony.

Radion Palamenets was married to Nadiya Obolonska, whose Cossack family owned Vyshniaky since 1744. After the founder's death, the manor was inherited by his wife, and then by her brother, Demyan Obolonskyi. The poet and artist Taras Shevchenko knew his son, the editor and publisher of the magazine "Narodne khednyi" Oleksandr Obolonsky well. In 1845, the Obolonsky hosted Shevchenko at the Vyshniaky estate, which he later mentioned in the story "The Twins" (a commemorative plaque was installed).

Later, the landlady Rodzyanko-Kotlyarevska became the owner of the Vyshniaky, whose name the estate now bears.

Now this is the closed territory of a boarding house for the disabled.

The Kotlyarevsky manor is connected by an underground passage with the Trinity Church located opposite.

The renovated art salon in Kremenchuk is an active creative platform that combines an exhibition space, a democratic bar, a platform for creative experiments, a designer store and a literary house.

This is a space for the presentation of creative works, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. Workshops, cultural and educational programs, round tables, discussions, master classes, lectures, seminars, meetings with young and prominent representatives of modern culture are held here.

Kremenchuk Automobile Plant (AvtoKrAZ), which has been producing heavy-duty civilian and military vehicles since 1958, opened its own museum back in 1967. Initially, it was a small room in the new engineering building, where several dozen exhibits, documents and photographs were placed. In 1970, the factory museum moved to a spacious room in the new educational building, where it is still located.

The updated museum of the history of the AvtoKrAZ plant opened its doors after a large-scale reconstruction in 2015. Now it houses more than 2,000 exhibits, including models of cars (including military ones), machines and tools, as well as many documents and photographs. The exposition tells about all periods of the establishment and development of the enterprise and about all modifications of KrAZ cars that were produced there.

Among the visitors of the museum over the past half century have been numerous delegations from foreign countries and honored guests of Kremenchuk, including pilot-cosmonaut Oleksii Leonov, singer Sofiia Rotaru and others.

Kremenchuk Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1975. The exposition of the museum is located in 11 halls and covers geography, history, ethnography and art of the region.

The number of exhibits stored in the funds of the Museum of Local Lore is over 66 thousand units. The paleontological collection of the museum is the largest in Poltava region. The funds contain a wonderful collection of minerals and rocks, as well as a unique sample of fossil amber weighing 525 grams, which is over 30 million years old. The archeological collection of the museum includes more than 6,000 items, covering the time range from the Mousterian Paleolithic to the excavation materials of the late medieval fortress Kremenchuk.

The oldest manuscript document stored in the museum dates back to 1813. The thematic collection "Life of Kremenchuk citizens at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries" is significant.

The Museum of the History of Pedagogy of Kremenchuk was created in 2025 on the basis of the former pedagogical and memorial house-museum of Anton Makarenko, opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

The museum collection includes about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, trumpet, violin), furniture and books of his parents. Currently, work is underway to create an updated exposition of the museum of pedagogical practices and experience, which was in various Ukrainian schools, which will tell about outstanding Ukrainian teachers.

The monument to Anton Makarenko, located near the future museum of pedagogy, may be dismantled in the future.

The Kuntseve hydroelectric power station on the Vorskla River was built in 1953 on the outskirts of the Kuntseve village.

In 2007, reconstruction was carried out and permanent work was resumed. The capacity of Kuntseve HPP is 400 kilowatts.

A good place for recreation and fishing.

The palace of the landowners Ladyhin is located on a hill in the old park of the village of Bohdanivka. The manor house was built in the middle of the 19th century, after General Ladyhin purchased Bohdanivka for his wife.

The central building of the estate is a two-story brick palace, which previously had a third wooden attic floor. The fence with an entrance gate in the form of a large arch has also been preserved.

The decoration of the estate is the Bohdanivka Park with century-old oaks, which has survived to this day and since 1970 has the status of a botanical monument of local importance.

The memorial museum-estate of the philosopher and collector of Opishnia ceramics Leonid Smorzh was opened in 2010 in the village of Opishnia Miski Mlyny.

The exposition is based on the largest in Ukraine private collection of Opishnia ceramics, which during 1960-1990 was collected by a famous Ukrainian scientist, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Leonid Opanasovych Smorzh. The collection includes about 700 unique author's pottery works of famous potters Opishny - Ivan Bilyk, Mykhaylo Kytrysh, Havrylo and Mykola Poshyvaylo, Hryhoriy Tyahun, Vasyl Omelyanenko, Trokhym Demchenko, Oleksandra Selyuchenko. The vast majority of these works exist in only one copy, as they are made to order.

In addition to ceramics, the exhibition presents embroidered Ukrainian men's and women's shirts, towels and tablecloths, as well as about 100 Easter eggs collected in different regions of Ukraine, striking bright colors and rich symbolism.

The Leonid Smorzh Museum-Estate also houses a private library of the scientist, which is about 3,000 books, including rare editions. A large number of photographs and personal belongings of the collector, which are presented in the museum's exposition, complement the exposition.

The Memorial Museum-Estate of the philosopher and collector of Opishnia ceramics Leonid Smorzh is one of the subdivisions of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia.

The Living Museum of Verguns in the village of Checheleve, Poltava Region, was founded in 2018 by the owner of the green tourism estate Country House UA, Nadiya Mykhailova. The museum was created to popularize the region's gastronomic brand - Kremenchuk verguns, i.e. crispy cookies made from unleavened dough.

Verguns gained popularity in the Kremenchuk region at the end of the 19th century due to the fact that their production did not require much time and expensive products. The museum stores many recipes for making these simple sweets: in milk, in whey, in sour cream, in vodka, in wine, in water, soft, fluffy, crispy, vegetable, fruit, spicy, salty, etc.

Visitors to the museum are offered a historical excursion (the emergence of verguns, legends, sayings), acquaintance with vergun recipes, ingredients and kitchen utensils, a master class on making verguns in an open-air kitchen, fun culinary entertainment, tasting verguns with vitamin tea and varenukha, a photo shoot as a keepsake.

Additional services: tractor rides, communication with animals on a mini-farm, additional dishes and drinks, a souvenir shop.

The Lokhvytsia Museum of Local Lore named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda is located in the old one-story building of the county court, built in 1865.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the basis of the collection of the local real school. Among the exhibits of the museum are collections of Cossack weapons, archaeological finds, sacred objects, samples of decorative and applied art, weapons of the Second World War period.

The museum is named after the poet and thinker, native of this region Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Part of the exposition is devoted to his life and work.

In the courtyard of the museum there are samples of weapons and military equipment from the Second World War.