Exposition
🌿 DEPARTMENT OF NATURE
The exposition of the Nature Department includes 4 exhibition halls in the museum and 2 halls in the Rivne House of Scientists. These halls introduce visitors to the unique beauty and natural resources of the Rivne region.
In the halls of the museum, visitors get acquainted with exhibits that tell about the history of life on Earth, minerals, water resources, flora and fauna.
A large collection of stuffed animals that live in the Rivne region is also a great attraction. Among them: a bison, a moose, a wolf, the largest bird of prey in the region - a golden eagle and the smallest bird in Ukraine - a yellow-headed kingfisher. Professor Avdeev's collection of landscape jasper makes you stop for a long time. Exhibits such as mammoth tusks, a cave bear skull, a turo horn, and a 300-year-old oak tree slice are noteworthy. Numerous skillfully made dioramas are exclusive in the halls of the Nature Department.
🏺 DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND MIDDLE AGES
The exposition of the department tells about life in the region from the Poleolithic period to the first half of the seventeenth century.
The exposition presents the results of many years of archaeological research that have been going on in the region since the late nineteenth century. The development of human society from the earliest period - the Paleolithic to the fifth century AD. The rich collection of artifacts - tools, pottery, weapons, jewelry, religious items - allows us to imagine the life of ancient people, their social and intercultural relations.
Unique exhibits include tools of mammoth hunters, Neolithic pottery of the Linear-Band Ceramics culture, materials of the Globular Amphora culture, a burial complex of a Przeworsk culture warrior of the first- and second-century from the village of Mlyniv, a treasure trove of bronze jewelry from the village of Uzlisia of the second- and third-century, and materials from the Gothic settlement in the village of Khrinnyky.
"The Land in the Middle Ages". It covers the past of the Rivne region in the VI - XIII centuries based on archaeological research and written sources. The hall presents the material heritage of the early Slavs, the impact of the Christianization of Rus on the territory of Volyn, the formation and development of Slavic-Russian settlements (Dorohobuzh, Peresopnytsia, Muravytsia, etc.), military and political events related to the internecine struggle in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the formation of the Galicia-Volyn principality. Exhibits include tools, stucco and pottery, religious attributes of pagans and Christians, writing instruments, glass, copper, bronze and precious metal jewelry, and equipment of the Old Rus warrior. The highlight of the hall is a model of the chronicle town of Dorohobuzh (by E. Malynovskyi).
"The region in the XIV - early XVII centuries". Tells about the history of the region during the period of the Lithuanian-Polish state. It presents materials about the development and life of cities, the network of castles, military threats of the time, and the life of magnate families in Volyn. Most of the exposition tells about the cultural life of the region: the activities of the Ostroh scientific center (publication of the Ostroh Bible, foundation and activities of the Ostroh Academy), the development of book printing: printing houses in Derman and Kyiv.
"The Land in the Seventeenth Century: The Battle of Berestets in 1651" in the Rivne region was the largest battle of the National Liberation War led by B. Khmelnytsky. Starting in 1969, for 20 years, archaeological excavations were conducted on the battlefield under the direction of I. K. Sveshnikov with the participation of the Rivne Museum. The findings from the excavations presented in the hall include cold and firearms, household items of Cossacks, peasants, and Poles of the seventeenth century. The most unique items are those made of leather: boots, bags, saddles, and walkers. Visitors can also see a model of the Battle of Berestets in 1651 (by P. Rychkov).
📜 DEPARTMENT OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
The priority areas of research of the staff of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History are topical issues of the history of our region in the XVIII - early XXI centuries; development of local centers of education, science, culture; religious and church life of the XVIII - early XXI centuries; events of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921 in Volyn; history of Rivne region in 1921-1939. mass political repressions in the Rivne region during the Soviet totalitarianism; military events and the Ukrainian national liberation movement during the Second World War; history of national minorities of the region; activities of political parties and public organizations; formation of the independent Ukrainian state since 1991; the Revolution of Dignity and events of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
"To the dead and to the living..." The hall presents materials that tell about the struggle for the Ukrainian state in the first half of the twentieth century and the actions of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the Rivne region.
"Makers of History". The exhibition was opened on January 20, 2017. The hall covers the topic of participation of Rivne residents and natives of the region in the events of the Revolution of Dignity, ATO, and JFO. Personal belongings of the participants, photographs, documents, weapons, remnants of ammunition, military uniforms, etc. are presented. After February 24, 2022, the exhibition will be supplemented with materials about the defenders of Ukraine, participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
🎎 ETHNOGRAPHY SECTOR
The sector's priority is expeditionary work. Employees of the sector have repeatedly surveyed the territory of Rivne region, participated in expeditions to the Chornobyl Zone (Chornobyl and Polissia districts of Kyiv region, Ovruch district of Zhytomyr region) and to the resettlers from the territories affected by radiation.
Research topics: folk arts and crafts, calendar customs and rituals, everyday life and crafts, folk costumes of Rivne region residents, etc.; religious denominations of the region, Cyrillic books from the ROKM collection.
Areas of scientific activity: scientific processing of collected materials, writing scientific articles, participation in scientific conferences, participation in the publication of scientific collections, writing monographs, processing of stock collections.
Employees of the sector provide sightseeing services to visitors (including field trips), give lectures, and participate in public events.
Every year, the sector's employees create exhibitions on various topics.
The ethnographic exposition of the ROKM "Main Occupations, Life and Crafts of the Residents of Rivne Region" was opened in 1996. The scientific concept was developed by A. Ukrainets, the artist - V. Herasymchuk, and the editing - O. Melnychuk. In 2015, the exposition of the hall "Folk Clothing of Rivne Region" was renovated and significantly updated, which was created by artist V. Herasymchuk and all the staff of the Ethnography Department.
In the first hall, visitors can learn about the main occupations (farming, cattle breeding, fishing, beekeeping, and gathering) and the way of life of the local population. The exhibits on display here date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and were collected in different years, mostly during expeditions to Rivne Polissia.
The exposition of the second hall is devoted to the main and very common crafts - weaving and embroidery. It presents tools for flax processing, spinning, weaving, samples of homespun products, and folk costumes of the nineteenth - 30s of the twentieth century. Special attention is paid to the decoration of the main elements of clothing, in particular shirts.
🎨 ARTS SECTOR
"Our Spiritual Heritage". In 1991, the Rivne Museum of Local Lore opened a permanent exhibition "Our Spiritual Heritage" (author and design of the project by Lutz V.), which presented the best examples of Volyn painting of the 13th-17th centuries from the museum's collection. Among the largest unique exhibits: Virgin Odyhytria of Dorohobuzh (second half of the thirteenth century), Christ Pantocrator (late fifteenth century), the Intercession of the Virgin (late fifteenth century), the royal gate (late sixteenth century), etc.
"Folk Icons of Volyn in the XVII-XVIII centuries" In December 1993, the exhibition "Folk Icons of Volyn in the XVII-XVIII centuries" was opened (author of the project Lutz V.). It presents unique works of painting of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of the Ostroh icon-painting workshop of the first half of the eighteenth century. Folk iconography of Volyn in the Middle Ages is still an unexplored layer of Volyn culture.
Almost all of the icons presented in the halls were restored at the Lviv branch of the State Museum of Fine Arts (now the Lviv branch of the Ukrainian Research and Restoration Center).
Exhibition "The Palace of Princes Lubomyrski in Rivne" (author of the project Lutz V.).
In the lobby of the Rivne Museum, marble sculptures by Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski and restored easel paintings of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries are on display for the general public.
📖 ULAS SAMCHUK LITERARY MUSEUM
The museum was opened on February 20, 2007, the 102nd anniversary of the writer's birth. Ulas Samchuk (1905-1987) was a prominent Ukrainian writer born in the Rivne region (Derman village, Zdolbuniv district), a journalist and publicist, editor, author of the books Volyn, Maria, The Youth of Vasyl Sheremeta, The Fist, On a White Horse, On a Raven Horse, What Fire Does Not Burn, The Mountains Speak, Planeta DP, Ost, and others. He lived most of his life in exile, always remaining a chronicler of his time and people. Samchuk was called the Ukrainian Homer of the twentieth century.
The Ulas Samchuk Museum has its own peculiarities that make it stand out from other similar institutions.
First, the exhibition highlights the main creative achievements of Ulas Samchuk and focuses on the influence of the writer's personality on the entire Ukrainian literary process of the twentieth century.
Secondly, the first editions of the Volyn trilogy, other works by the writer, letters, photographs, and his personal belongings are presented to the visitors.
Third, the museum focuses on the Rivne period of the writer's life and work (1941-1943), visually recreating the life of Samchuk's home in those years (things from the former Rivne apartment where he lived) and preserving the writer's main achievements in this period (the Volyn magazine, a reprint of Maria, the painting Poltava Landscape, etc.)
In addition, the museum exhibition tells about literature and its creators, about the time and its leading figures, and about the writer's native land exclusively in the words of Ulas Samchuk himself.
The museum's exposition tells the story of the writer's life and work, and shows the cohort of literary figures of the Ukrainian word with whom fate brought Ulas Samchuk together.
The museum is located at 17 S. Petliury St., Rivne.
🌟 EXHIBITION HALL "AMBER MUSEUM"
The Amber Museum opened its doors on August 24, 2010, in a very beautiful historic building, which is an architectural monument of local significance - the Rivne House of Scientists (built in 1903 as a residential building commissioned by a wealthy Jew, Itzhak Vigdorovich).
The museum has two exhibition rooms and a sales area. In the first museum room, visitors can see an ancient sun stone, a semiprecious mineral, a tear of the sun, the first jewelry stone mined by human hands - the legendary amber in its natural form. Here you can plunge into the time of the gem's formation - 35-50 million years ago; see the unique, world-famous shades and colors of amber from Rivne Polissia; learn how and where this gem is mined in Rivne region.
The second museum room presents amber processed by skilled and talented human hands. Here you can trace the peculiarities of using the sun stone at different times in different spheres of human life. Visitors are presented with very beautiful products that combine leather, wood, silver, bronze, mammoth tusk and amber. The museum also houses unique works such as carvings on solid amber stone and amber mosaics.
The museum displays a variety of amber products with religious themes (angels, icons, crosses). "The Amber Museum keeps interesting legends about this miracle stone. There is a unique crown from the Amber Crown of Ukraine beauty contest, which combines silver and amber of milk, brown, and cherry colors.
The museum offers guided tours for adults, students, and schoolchildren. Night tours are available by prior reservation (group size not less than 10 people).
We are waiting for you at the following address: 17 S. Petliury St., Rivne
Tel. + 38 (068) 4746678
🔭 OBSERVATION DECK
BASALT PILLARS
Basalt is a unique stone of volcanic origin, the glory of the Polissia region. One of the most prominent researchers of our region, academician Pavlo Apolonovych Tutkovskyi, wrote in one of his essays "Berestovets Volcano and Other Extinct Volcanoes of Ukraine": "...in Volyn, in the Rivne district, there is a real extinct volcano, one of the few volcanoes on the vast territory of Ukraine."
Basalt is an igneous rock. Its color is black or dark gray. It is formed as a result of crystallization of the main magma, which rises from the depths, along faults and volcanic vents. Basalt is about 600-700 million years old. The height of basalt pillars reaches from 60 centimeters to 30 meters, and it is cut into almost equal rectangular parts.
Basalt is the main mineral in Rivne region, second only to amber. Local legends say that in Cossack times, one of the locals dug down to this stone while making a well and used it for the foundation of a house.
Subsequently, the squares of Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw were paved with basalt extracted from local quarries. Basalt has an amazing property of melting at a temperature of 1400-1450˚C. Nowadays, basalt is used to make heat-protective coatings for spacecraft, fabric for fire suits and spacesuits, and is used to manufacture turbojet engines.
Ivan-Dolynske and Berestovetske fields are being developed in the region.
The Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore displays samples of basalt brought from the village of Bazaltove, Kostopil district.
CANNONS XVII ST.
During the National Liberation War of 1648-1657, a lot of weapons were produced in Ukraine. During this period, most of them were produced by artisans in Pereiaslav, Cherkasy, Korsun, Bila Tserkva, and Ostroh.
Workshops for the manufacture of weapons, including cannons, employed 4-6 people. First, they made a so-called false model of the cannon body out of clay, which was applied to a wooden rod in several layers. Wooden trunnions and stucco decorations were attached to the model. Then it was coated with a mixture of lard and oil. Several layers of clay were applied to the greased surface, which were fastened with a frame from the outside. The thickness of the casing was 175-300 mm. After that, the fake model was thrown away, leaving only the shape of the cannon body with the imprint of all the decorations and inscriptions on the inner surface. The mold of the breech of the gun was made separately. These molds were then joined together. A cylindrical iron rod was used to make a rod, which was wrapped in tow, covered with a layer of clay, and templated. The rod was removed from the mold after the cannon was cast.
Cannonballs were used for cannons. Stone cannonballs were ground and sometimes bound around with iron hoops. Later, cannonballs were made only of iron, sometimes with tin. Iron, wooden, and clay molds were used to cast the kernels. The metal kernels were relatively small - "bigger than a goose egg" or with a "pigeon egg", and sometimes "5 heels in circumference".
The exhibited cannons are a valuable example of artistic foundry of the XVI-XVII centuries.
COSSACK BOAT OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
In September 1967, near the village of Orzhiv in the Rivne district, fishermen spotted the stern of an ancient boat in the Horyn River. The discovery was reported to the Rivne Museum of Local Lore, which began excavating and bringing this rare find to shore.
They had to not only dig up the boat on the shore, free it from river silt, but also dig out its stern, which was in the river, from all sides. The boat was extracted in parts. It turned out that it was hollowed out of one solid oak log. It was flat-bottomed. It is over 17 meters long and 2.6 meters wide. On the inside, the boat is fastened with transverse oak ribs - the so-called frames - attached to its bottom and sides with pine stakes.
The dimensions and design features correspond to the Cossack boats of the seventeenth century known to us from descriptions, which allows us to attribute the discovery near the village of Orzhiv to the above-mentioned period. In 1966, a similar boat was found almost in the same place and is now in the Lviv Ethnographic Museum.
YAK-50 AIRPLANE
The Yak-50 single-seat aerobatic airplane was developed at the Yakovlev Design Bureau in 1972 under the direction of V.P. Kondratiev. Serial production began in 1976.
It belonged to the Zaporizhzhia Aviation and Technical Sports Club of the USSR Federation of Aviation Amateurs. It was transferred to the museum in 1991.
A MID-CENTURY TRACTOR "UNIVERSAL".
A four-wheeled tractor of the Universal brand, produced at the Vladimir Tractor Plant named after Zhdanov in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
It worked in the fields of the first collective farm named after Vatutin in the Rivne region, the former Mezhyrytskyi (now Korets) district. This tractor was universal. It plowed, cultivated, harrowed, sowed, weeded, mowed grass, and transported fertilizers to the fields. The tractor's power was 16 horsepower.
After the MTS reorganization, when agricultural machinery was transferred to collective farms, the Universal was assigned to the Svitanok collective farm in what is now the Korets district.
In 1976, the tractor was transferred to the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore for eternal preservation.
AIRCRAFT ENGINES, 60S. XX CENTURY.
AI 14 D engine from the Yak-12 airplane. Piston engine, 260 horsepower. The engine has 9 cylinders arranged in a star-shaped row. The diameter of one cylinder is 105 mm. The operating speed of the crankshaft is 2350 revolutions per minute. The engine was released in 1960 and has flown 2300 hours. It was transferred to the museum by the Rivne Civil Aviation Enterprise in 1979.
The second engine is the ASh-62R from the AN-2 airplane. The piston engine has a capacity of 1000 horsepower. The operating speed of the crankshaft per 1 minute is 2200. The engine weighs 567 kg. It was also transferred to the museum in 1979.
VIMIKACHI VMG-33, VMPP-10, 70-TI RR. ХХ CENTURY.
The VMG-133 circuit breaker was produced at the Rivne High Voltage Equipment Plant on March 31, 1966. The workers handed this switch over to the plant for history. And later it was transferred to the museum. This is a three-pole, low-oil circuit breaker for indoor installation. It is designed for switching high-voltage three-phase current lines in the rated operation mode of the plant, as well as for automatic shutdown of these lines in case of short circuits and overloads arising in emergency conditions.
The second circuit breaker is a 20,000-capacity three-pole low-oil circuit breaker VMPP-10, manufactured in 1975. The device was awarded the state quality mark.
TRUCKS, 1930S. XX CENTURY.
There are two unique cars on the observation deck: GAZ-AA and ZIS-5.
GAZ-AA is a truck of the Nizhny Novgorod, later Gorky Automobile Plant, with a carrying capacity of 1.5 tons (1500 kg), known as a "one-and-a-half". It was modeled on the American Ford Model AA truck, made in 1930, which was later redesigned according to Soviet drawings.
It is known that the museum's GAZ-AA rolled off the factory floor in 1936. The car was actively used on the farm and at the front during the German-Soviet war. Since 1950, the car has been in the service of the regional tuberculosis dispensary located in the village of Horodok. In 1977, GAZ-AA was transferred to the museum.
The ZIS-5 is a truck with a payload of 3 tons (colloquially known as a "three-ton"). The main truck of the Soviet army during World War II. The first copies of the model were assembled in 1933. The vehicle was an improvement of the AMO-2 and AMO-3, which, in turn, were modified copies of the American AutoCar-SA.
The truck was transferred to the museum by the head of the united garage regional administration Kozlov A.I. in June 1977.
POWER PLANT TURBINE, 1948.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, AND GENDER. XX CENTURY.
Samples of agricultural implements (in particular, metal plows) used in agriculture in the Rivne region in the 2nd half of the 20th century until they were almost completely replaced by more modern equipment.
LIQUID FILTERS
Fluid filters manufactured by the Rivne Tractor Units Plant.
PM-43 MORTAR
The 120mm PM-43 mortar is an upgraded version of the previous 1938 model, which was modernized in 1943. Thanks to simplified manufacturing technology and improved combat performance (in particular, ease of aiming and field repair capabilities), the PM-43 began to actively replace the previous 1938 models.
WRECKAGE OF THE VOLKSWAGEN T-4
The wreckage of a Volkswagen T-4 donated by volunteers to the Ukrainian army in 2015. A soldier, Andriy Bilyk, was killed while driving this vehicle while performing a combat mission in the ATO, coming under enemy Grad fire. The remains of the vehicle and one of the shells used in the attack were transferred to the museum's exposition to immortalize the memory of the brave defender of Ukraine.
Anti-tank hedgehogs