Attractions of Pishchane

The Pishchane People`s Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1979 on the basis of materials from a historical club that emerged at the Pishchane secondary school in 1961 after the discovery of the famous Pishchane treasure. The first years it worked on a non-profit basis. In 1982 it received the status of a "People's Museum".

The museum's exposition is presented in four halls: historical, combat, eternal and labor glory. The historical hall contains monuments from different historical eras. There are exhibits from the Stone and Bronze Ages, Scythian and Old Rus times, you can see arrowheads found on the territory of the village, fragments of cold and firearm Cossack weapons, pipes. A rich collection of items from the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

The hall of combat glory contains many front-line relics and photographs of local participants in World War II, their memories. Photos of the deceased villagers are collected in the room of eternal glory.

The exhibits of the Hall of Labor Glory tell about the life of the village of Pishchane in the post-war years.

In total, the museum funds number over 2.5 thousand exhibits. The most valuable exhibits of the museum are a soldier's pistol from the mid-19th century and a carved cupboard for dishes from the estate of the nobleman Kostyukovsky (early 20th century).