Bashtanka

The municipal cultural institution "Bashtanka Local Lore Museum" was established in 1959 in memory of the events of the peasant anti-Denikin uprising in the village of Poltavka (now Bashtanka) in September-November 1919.

The museum's collection includes over 6 thousand items of the main fund and 2 thousand items of the auxiliary fund.

The museum's exposition is spread over 8 halls. One of the eight halls is an exhibition hall, where thematic exhibitions from museum collections, exhibitions of folk craftsmen, artistic creative groups, etc. are held.

A separate exhibition hall of the museum is dedicated to the monumental artist Hryhoriy Dovzhenko (1899-1980), a native of Bashtanka - sketches of his works, paintings, drawings, personal belongings are presented.

The Bashtanka Local Lore Museum includes its branch - the "Museum of History and Fine Arts of the Village of Khrystoforivka" in the former estates of the Arkas family.

RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR

In the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion, employees of the Bashtanka Museum of Local Lore faced the problem of preserving the cultural values, the main collection, documentation and property of the institution. They continued to remove exhibits from the museum and bury them until the last moment, until a Russian military column entered Bashtanka on March 1, 2022. For a long time, Bashtanka was repeatedly subjected to air raids and artillery shelling. The blast wave from the rocket attack damaged the roof of the museum. After almost two months of hiding exhibits, at the end of April 2022, the museum managed to remove five thousand exhibits, which is almost half of the museum collection. The exhibits were sent to storage outside the Mykolaiv region. The most valuable are the works of art and the archive of artist Hryhoriy Dovzhenko, ethnographic materials (a collection of towels and clothing from the late 19th and early 20th centuries), collections of photographs and documents, etc.