Attractions of Rivne district

The school historical and ethnographic museum "History of the village of Zirne" was opened in 2009.

The museum's expositions consist of several separate sections: "Main occupations and crafts of the villagers of the mid-19th - early 20th centuries", "The beginnings of the history of the village of Zirne", "Under Polish rule", "In the flames of World War II", "The village of Zirne in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries" and "Development of education. Outstanding graduates".

A separate stand is dedicated to the UPA hundred Leonid Boreychuk, nicknamed "Strybaylo", and the activities of the Ukrainian underground.

With the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war, an exposition was created about the heroes of the Heavenly Hundred and the defenders of Ukraine.

The Zoological Museum in Rivne operates on the basis of the Stepan Demyanchuk International University of Economics and Humanities. The collection of rare animals, which includes over 2,500 specimens, was collected and systematized by biologist Rostyslav Shykula.

All exhibits are rare for Ukraine. Most of them are exotic invertebrates of the seas and tropical coasts and forests. A significant part of the collection is made up of a section that presents insects from Africa, South America, South and Southeast Asia and adjacent islands.

The diversity of the entomofauna of Ukraine is represented by collections of beetles, butterflies, hymenoptera, bedbugs and other arthropods. Among the rare species of Ukraine are the dead-head beetle, the black apollo, the swallowtail, the podalirius sailfish, the stag beetle, the muskrat, the large oak barbel, the hermit beetle.

The most valuable exhibit in the collection is the Hercules beetle, 14.8 centimeters long - it is also the largest beetle in the world.

Today, only Lviv National University has a similar collection in the western regions of Ukraine.