Volyn regional museum is the main museum of Volyn. Moreover, it is the largest and the oldest of the current museums of Volyn region. It was opened in 1929. Nowadays funds of the Volyn Regional Museum hold more than 160 thousand exhibits of the main fund, that represent nature, history, ethnography, art of the Volyn region. The museum has a rich collection of natural science materials, collections of geological minerals, plants, animals. From ancient times, Volyn’s history is presented by unique objects of archaeological collections, numismatic collections, ethnographic materials, documents, examples of sacred art (icon-painting, metalworking, blacksmithing, sewing ). The museum has a rich collection of folk art.
The collections of the museum are presented in the exposition, which consists of sections of nature, ancient and modern history, thematic exhibitions. The exposition of the museum is located on an area of over 2 thousand square meters in 23 stationary and 9 exhibition halls.
Tue-Sun
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Weekend – Monday
100 UAH for adults
50 UAH for children, students, pensioners
Address: 20 Shopen Street
Phone numbers: +38 097 759 9247, +38 095 152 25 09
Website: https://volynmuseum.com/
We invite you to visit the main tourist site of Lutsk – a medieval castle of the XIV century. It won first place in the category “castles” of the All-Ukrainian competition “Seven Wonders of Ukraine: castles, palaces, fortresses”.
Mision of the museum is to create museum institution of the highest level that changes past, reflects present and creates future to develop the nation spirituality and promote Ukrainian art in the world. Here you can see the largest painting in the world – “Cosmogony”, covering an area of over 2000 square meters.
The Chortoryiski princes Tower is the only one of the 8 towers of the Lutsk Lower (Okolnyi) Castle that has survived to this day. The Museum space «Okolnyi Castle» is a modern historical part of the defensive structure of Lutsk from the 14th – 17th centuries. The Upper Lutsk Castle was rebuilt from wooden fortifications to stone ones between the late 14th and 15th centuries. The first line of defensive of the Upper Castle, the Okolnyi Castle, began its transformation in the early 16th century, when wooden towers were gradually replaced with stone structures.
In addition to the above-ground city, Lutsk has an extensive network of underground tunnels. The two levels of the underground city housed sacred objects, a refectory, a prison, and tombs. There are many legends about the unique two-level underground complex, the entrance to which is located beneath the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Their height is particularly impressive, reaching almost 8 meters in some places.
Lutheran church (now Baptist) in Lutsk an architectural monument, located on Karaimska Street, 1 in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Old Lutsk”.
The Museum Space «Okolnyi Castle» is a new tourist attraction created on the basis of restored architectural monuments of national importance: the Chortoryiski princes tower with part of the defensive wall and the Jesuit Monastery with its dungeons.
