About museum
The Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore is the largest museum in Rivne region. It was established in February 1940 on the basis of the previously existing ones.
The mission of the museum is to preserve, replenish and popularize the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people; to open the museum's communication space for human development in the modern multicultural world; to form the socio-cultural consciousness of Ukrainian citizens for the development of the region and the state through the knowledge and information obtained in the museum.
The Rivne Museum is a scientific, cultural and educational institution that collects, preserves, studies and popularizes various materials about the nature, history and culture of the Rivne region. The museum houses unique finds of the Paleolithic period from the village of Barmaky, Ancient Rus (treasures from Dorohobuzh and Torgovytsia), a collection of icons of the Volyn school of icon painting with the pearl - the Virgin Mary Odyhytria from Dorohobuzh, etc.
Since 1975, the museum has been housed in the building of the former men's gymnasium, which was built at the expense of Prince Frederick Lubomirski, the owner of Rivne, in 1839. Historians P. Kulish and M. Kostomarov worked in this building; Nobel laureate Simon Smith (Smith), a classic of Moldovan literature, and folklorist Bohdan Petricheicu Gashdeu studied there.
The museum's collections include about 300 thousand museum objects that tell about the nature, material and spiritual culture, and ethnographic features of our region.
Today, the building is an architectural monument of national importance, one of the oldest structures in the city.