Attractions of Rivne region

The Eco Farm AlpacaHome (Fluffy Farm) in Horodyshche near Rivne opened for visitors in 2024. It is located on the banks of a large pond 10 kilometers from the city center.

About three dozen South American alpacas now live on the farm. They are accompanied by pygmy goats, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs and peacocks.

During a visit to the farm, visitors are in the same territory with alpacas, which are completely non-aggressive. You can directly contact the animals, feed them with special food, take pictures with them.

On the territory there are places for relaxation with gazebos, tables, hammocks, canopies, deckchairs.

The price of the visit includes an excursion and a portion of feed for the animals. Pre-registration is required to visit.

The Ethnographic Museum of Embroidery and Weaving of the Village of Mutvytsia, located in a local school, was founded in 2022 on the initiative of Svitlana Sarych.

Embroidered and woven items from all over the district are collected here. The first exhibits were collected by the principals of secondary schools in the district.

The total number of exhibits is over 1 thousand. Some of the exhibits are copies - they were made to display various embroidery ornaments and ceremonial symbols. The collection of towels is divided into separate expositions by embroidery: geometric themes, plant-geometric, plant, ornithomorphic and anthropomorphic. The museum also has many embroidered paintings.

The School Ethnographic Museum "Berehynya" was created at the Bila Krynytsia lyceum in 1991. Since 1995, the museum has had the status of "People's Museum".

In the center of the exposition is a panorama of the village with picturesque landscapes. The interior of a traditional Ukrainian home has been recreated: a stove, benches, a table, a chest, a icons, a cradle, a shrine, shelves, basins with dishes, towels, samples of Ukrainian national clothing.

A prominent place among the museum's expositions is occupied by tools used by peasants.

The museum's funds number over 400 exhibits.

The school ethnographic museum “Svitlytsya” operates in the village of Volodymyrets on the basis of the Volodymyrets Lyceum.

It has two exhibition halls. The first hall, "Life and Way of Life of Polishchuk Peasants," recreates the layout of a traditional Polissya hut.

The second hall is dedicated to the history of the educational institution.

The Gallery of European Painting "Euro-Art" opened in Rivne in 2011.

The gallery introduces the art of the 19th–20th centuries. The four halls of the gallery present paintings by Western European and Ukrainian artists with world names: Volodymyr Orlovsky, Albert Bredov, Davyd Burlyuk, Oleksa Novakivsky, Serhiy Shyshko, Fedir Manaylo, Andriy Kotska, Erno Erb, Ernest Kontratovych, Oleksiy Shovkunenko, Tomassyne Dezyre, Teodor Russo, Piter Kalman, Yozef Braks, Leon Delderene, Yaroslav Vyeshyn, Vinchentso Volpe, Yaroslav Kamikh and others.

Art exhibitions are systematically held in the hall of temporary exhibitions "Euro-Art".

The firefighting museum opened in 2020 in the restored premises of the old fire station in the village of Dibrivka in the Rivne region.

The fire station in Dibrivka was built by Czech colonists, who in 1923 founded the first volunteer fire brigade here, which was part of the Association of Voluntary Fire Protection. The number of team members was 22 people. The team went to the fire in a radius of 5 kilometers.

During Soviet times, the building was adapted for economic purposes, and for a long time it stood empty. It was restored by the joint efforts of the Emergency Department of the Rivne region and local patron Roman Stasyuk.

Now the fire station in Dibrivka has an authentic appearance. It houses a museum exposition, which presents firefighting equipment from the beginning of the 20s of the 20th century. There is an information stand nearby.

The Forest Museum near Kostopil was opened in 2011 on the basis of the Kostopil Forestry.

The exposition covers the work of each of the 16 forestries of the region. In particular, one of the stands tells about the 250-year-old Kostopil oak.

Among the exhibits of the forest museum are a stuffed animal of 50 species of birds, wild boars, martens, badgers and bison. Another exposition tells about the peculiarities of wooden architecture and life of Polishchuks.

Around the museum is the creation of a forest park with a cascade of ponds and labyrinths of forests. Lawn and flower beds were laid out, paths were equipped, gazebos for recreation and a playground with wooden figures of fairy-tale heroes were installed, a chapel was built.

There is a souvenir shop.

Built in Ostroh in the 16th century, the defensive Great Synagogue was at one time one of the largest centers of Jewish culture in Europe, with a higher school of rabbis.

It was destroyed during the War of Liberation.

After the Second World War, the Jewish community of the city was never restored, the synagogue building was used as a warehouse.

Until 2016, it was in a state of disrepair, gradually collapsing. In 2016, the restoration of the synagogue began at the expense of patrons.

The Dubno Great Synagogue was built in the 16th century.

It underwent reconstruction in the 18th century after destruction during the Liberation War of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi.

Until the middle of the 19th century, Dubno had the largest Jewish community in Lutsk County, which flourished thanks to the "Dubno Contracts" fairs that were regularly held in the city. There were 15 synagogues and prayer houses, as well as a Jewish printing house.

The Dubno Great Synagogue was badly damaged during the First World War, but has survived to this day.

The building of the main Great Synagogue in Rivne was built at the end of the 19th century.

Before the Bolshevik coup of 1917, a Jewish school operated there.

Since Soviet times, the building of the Great Synagogue has housed the children's and youth sports school "Avangard".

The Historical and Ethnographic Museum "Berehynya" of the Velyki Mezhyrichi Lyceum was established in 1992 on the initiative of the school director Sava Chumak. In 2004, it received the status of "People's Museum".

The museum collection consists of 450 storage units, of which the main collection is 400.

The exhibition is presented in three thematic sections: "History of the village of Velyki Mezhyrichi", "Main occupations and crafts of the villagers" and "Ukrainian embroidery - the soul of the people, its history".

Ostroh Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy is the first higher educational institution in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

It was founded in 1576 by Prince Vasyl-Kostyantyn Ostrozky and Princess Halshka Ostrozka (a memorial sign has been erected in Shevchenko Park next to the castle where the academy was originally located). The first printer Ivan Fedorov opened a printing house there in 1580, where the first "Bukvar" and the famous "Ostroh Bible" were published.

The first rector of the academy was Herasym Smotrytsky. Among the graduates are Hetman Petro Sahaydachny, the Nalyvayko brothers and others.

In 1624, after the founding of the Jesuit College in Ostroh, funding for the academy ceased, and in 1636 it was disbanded. Revived in 1994 as a state university. Today it occupies the premises of the former Capuchin monastery with the Trinity Church (1778, architects Paolo Fontana).

There is a museum of history of the National University "Ostroh Academy", excursions to the dungeon of the monastery, where crypts with burials of monks were found.

The Church of the Holy Ascension in the village of Verkhiv was built in 1875 on the site of an old wooden church known since 1785 that burned down.

The wooden church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in Volodymyrka in 1897.

The interior painting was done for the first time in 1978.

The temple is single-domed, with five baths. There are seven bells in the belfry.

The Assumption Church in Dorohobuzh is one of the oldest in Volyn. It was founded in the 11th century, when Dorohobuzh was the center of a separate principality of the Ryurykovychi princes.

For a long time, an Orthodox monastery operated near the church. In 1577 (according to other sources - in 1582), on the initiative of Prince Vasyl Ostrozky, the Assumption Church was completely rebuilt with the inclusion of fragments of the ancient Rus plinth masonry.

The building is rectangular in plan, single-nave, single-headed, with a rectangular apse strengthened by two corner buttresses.

From 1644 to 1834, the monastery was Basilian (Greek Catholic). During this period, two cell buildings were added to the temple, which have not survived. After the temple was returned to the Orthodox Church, a wooden bell tower was added to it.

The Church of the Assumption is a unique example of Ukrainian architecture of the XI-XVII centuries, in which the traditions of Old Rus architecture are combined with the Baroque style and some later architectural techniques.