Rivne

The Amber Museum was opened in Rivne on the basis of the Rivne amber factory - the state enterprise "Amber of Ukraine".

The museum is located in the premises of the Rivne House of Scientists - a two-story mansion of the beginning of the 20th century in the Art Nouveau style.

Among the exhibits of the museum are pieces of amber up to 40 million years old, found at different times in the Rivne region, as well as jewelry and works of art made from it. In particular, the oldest amber product in Ukraine is exhibited - a disk-amulet approximately 2.5 thousand years old.

Stones in which ancient insects have crystallized are considered to be the decoration of the museum. A piece of wild amber weighing about 2 kilograms is presented.

The exhibits tell not only about the history of amber mining in the region, but also about the only enterprise in Ukraine that is engaged in its processing.

The Ulas Samchuk Museum is located in the same building.

The wooden Church of the Assumption is the oldest building in Rivne. The temple in the Tyutkivskyi suburb was built in 1756 at the expense of the parishioners. The church is single-domed, the iconostasis was completed in 1784.

According to legend, Ivan Honta, the leader of the Haidamac movement, prayed in the Assumption Church before the battle with the Polish nobility.

The belfry and the "chain of moral foundations" to which ungodly parishioners were chained in the 18th century for public atonement have been preserved.

The museum and entertainment complex "Mysterious Rivne Dungeons" opened in 2021 in the Rivne Park of Culture and Recreation named after Taras Shevchenko. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the estate of Prince Frederik Lubomyrsky "On the Hill" was located here.

The Lyubomirskyi Palace was destroyed during the Second World War, in the post-war years its remains were demolished during the arrangement of the park, but elements of the basement part of the building were preserved under the "Bogatyr" fountain. They became the basis for the interactive museum exposition "Mysterious Rivne Dungeons". Its project was developed by the outstanding Ukrainian monumentalist artist Anatoliy Haydamaka.

The exhibition complex consists of an upper observation deck and an underground part. From above, fragments of archaeological excavations on the territory of the manor are available for inspection through glass circles, with an illuminated display of samples of weapons found during research.

In the underground part, you can see cleared corridors and rooms with an exposition about the history of the city of Rivne, the palace complex "On the Hill" and the family of the Lubomyrsky princes.

Visitors are offered classic tours, virtual tours using multimedia technologies, as well as an interactive game in the quest room.

The Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore is located in the building of the former male gymnasium, built in Rivne in the classicism style in 1839 on the initiative of Prince Frederik Lubomyrskyi.

Mykola Kostomarov, a Ukrainian historian, taught here, and Volodymyr Korolenko, a humanist writer, studied here. During the Second World War, the building served as the Reich Commissariat of Ukraine, next to it was the bunker of General Erik Kokh (preserved).

Since 1975, the premises have been occupied by the Museum of Local Lore, organized in Rivne in 1906. The museum collection includes over 300,000 exhibits, including archaeological finds, an ethnographic exhibition, a numismatic collection, objects from the Cossack era, and icons. An exhibition of military equipment is located in the museum's park.

Charming in its provincialism, the Rivne Zoo is located on a relief park area of 4.7 hectares at the entrance to Rivne from the Kyiv side.

The zoo is home to almost 700 animals of 200 species. Lions and other big cats, bears, monkeys, even-toed animals, and birds are represented. The Far Eastern leopard Bagheera, of rare black color, is very popular among visitors to the Rivne Zoo.

It is allowed to feed and hold domestic animals in the "Grandma's Yard" aviary. Exotarium works. There is a riding school.