Dnipro

The Museum "Public feat of the inhabitants of Dnipropetrovsk region in the events of the anti-terrorist operation", which recreates the main events of the war in eastern Ukraine and honors Ukrainian soldiers, is a department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

Created in 2016-2017 at the initiative of anti-terrorist operation participants and volunteers. The open-air street exhibition "Ways of Donbass" has more than 400 exhibits that are symbols of war: a typical reinforced concrete checkpoint, anti-aircraft gun ZU-23-2, ambulance, infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2, T-64 tank turret, military SUV, road signs of the cities of Donbass, a sculptural composition "Soldier and the girl".

Even more exhibits are presented in an internal exhibition of more than 500 square meters, which tells about the military, volunteers, migrants, journalists, chaplains and medics.

In the "Hall of Bright Memory of Heroes" 500 photo portraits of the fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces and volunteer formations from Dnipropetrovsk region are presented. In the hall of panoramic video you can watch the documentary "Dnipropetrovsk region in the events of the anti-terrorist operation" with the effect of presence.

The memorial house-museum of Academician Dmytro Yavornytsky in Dnipro is the only residential estate of old Katerynoslav that has survived to this day.

It was built in 1905 according to the project of architect Leonid Brodnytsky opposite the Potemkin Palace in the current Shevchenko Park. Dmytro Yavornytsky, a prominent Ukrainian historian, archaeologist, and public figure, lived and worked in this small red-brick house with a belvedere and a carved wooden veranda for 35 years. Heading the Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, he became famous as a researcher of the history of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks.

The interiors of the rooms of Yavornytsky's house were recreated as they were during his life: the lobby, the hall, the study, the living room, the dining room, the mezzanine. The exhibition presents many memorial items: student notebooks from the time of study at the Kharkiv gymnasium, workbooks exhibited his own things, documents, letters, photographs, paintings. Among personal belongings: embroidered shirt, stick, glasses, etc.

In front of the house you can still see pine and poplar planted by Yavornytsky.

Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytsky presents one of the best historical collections of Ukraine, in particular Cossack antiquities.

It is also one of the most progressive museums in Ukraine, which holds regular museum festivals, theatrical night tours with music and lighting effects, themed museum salons.

The institution was founded in 1849 by Governor Andriy Fabre as the Public Museum of the Ekaterinoslav Province. At first he was housed in one of the rooms of the Potemkin Palace, then moved several times. In 1902, on its basis, as well as on the basis of several private collections, the Regional Museum named after Oleksandr Pol was opened, headed by a prominent historian, researcher of the Ukrainian Cossacks Dmytro Yavornytsky. Since 1905, the museum has been housed in a museum building specially built for him in a modernized classicist style.

Today the funds of the Historical Museum. Yavornytsky has 240,000 museum items. About 7,000 of them are presented in the exhibition, which tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the middle of the twentieth century. These include archeological monuments, relics of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, old prints and rare editions, porcelain, clocks, furniture, weapons and many other historical and cultural monuments. In particular, a statuette of Pharaoh Ramses VI, a milk cart and a carriage from the time of Catherine II's journey to the South, the first Soviet tractor. In front of the entrance there is a collection of stone sculptures: Scythian stone statues and Polovtsian "babas". A monument to Dmytro Yavornytsky's grave has been erected on the square near the museum.

The old one-storey part of the museum is combined with a new two-storey building, which houses the largest in Ukraine dioramas "Battle for the Dnipro" with an exhibition of military equipment nearby, as well as a new museum exposition "Public feat of Dnipropetrovsk residents in anti-terrorist operation events".

In addition, the Historical Museum in Dnipro has a number of branches in the city:
- House-museum of Dmytro Yavornytsky
- Museum center of the family of Helena Blavatska
- Literary Prydniprovya Museum;
- Museum of the history of local self-government.

An interesting building in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau on the central avenue of the city is called "Khrinnykov's House" or "Ukrainian House" in Dnipro.

The four-story commercial building was built in 1912 by the entrepreneur and philanthropist Volodymyr Khrinnykov from Ekaterinoslav according to the project of the Kyiv architect Petro Fetysov. According to the idea of Khrinnikov, who was a Ukrainian patriot, a member of the council of the local association "Prosvita", the new building was to become an architectural embodiment of Ukrainian national culture.

Ethnographer and historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi played a significant role in the development of the project. Hexagonal windows, multi-tiered tent towers with forged spiers, red tiled roofs and white walls resembled the forms of the structure of the times of the Zaporizhzhian Sich. Originally, the spiers of the towers were crowned with images of a horse, a quiver and a falcon, as well as a weather vane cross with a Cossack and a noble fighting. Colorful majolica has been preserved under the roof, as well as the image of the main element of the coat of arms of the Zaporizhzhia Army - a Cossack with a musket and a saber. Part of the wing of the building was once equipped for theatrical purposes.

Before the revolution of 1917, the "Palace" theater was located here. Currently, the building is occupied by the five-star Grand Hotel "Ukraine".

Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" in Dnipro is the largest museum in the country, which tells the story of Jewry in Ukraine, as well as the persecution and mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War II.

The museum also tells about the tragedies of Ukrainians, Roma, Armenians, Crimean Tatars, Poles and other peoples.

The museum collection has more than 16 thousand exhibits of the main fund. These are objects of Judaism and a collection of publications of spiritual literature of the XIX-XX centuries, household items of that era, artifacts related to the Holocaust (literature, leaflets and announcements, equipment and weapons), personal belongings of Jews involved in World War II, documents, manuscripts and photos related to the history of the Jews of Ukraine.

The exhibition uses the principle of combining unique exhibits, modern multimedia technologies and art installations. In particular, the diorama "Babyn Yar" is presented.

Visitors are offered different types of excursions - both sightseeing, throughout the Museum, and thematic, devoted to a detailed examination of certain aspects of Jewish and Ukrainian history, culture and religion.

The museum is located on the 3rd floor of the Jewish cultural and business center "Menorah" in the center of Dnipro. There is also a choral synagogue, kosher restaurant, hotel. Visitors are offered comprehensive tours of the center, including access to the observation deck on the 18th floor.