Museum of Lutsk Brotherhood is the only one museum in Ukraine dedicated to a separate fraternal organization. It is located in the old building of a former fraternal monastery. The museum represents the activity of a fraternity that united the efforts of princes, nobles, burghers and peasants to revive the positions of Orthodoxy in Volyn. Among the exhibits are documentary materials, works of art by Volyn painters, including portraits of the most prominent figures of the fraternity: Bishop Afanasiy Puzyna, icon painter Yov Kondzelevych, public figure Danylo Bratkovsky.
Particularly noteworthy are the old books of 17th-19th centuries from the library of Lutsk brotherhood, documents of financial activity, metric books of the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of XX century. The most valuable “exhibit” of the museum is the authentic interior masonry of the fraternal monastery. An ensemble of monastery furniture of the late 18th-19th centuries is partially restored in the museum halls. Original items of church use from the collection of the Volyn Regional Museum are displayed in the showcases. Due to the volume scheme-reconstruction of fraternal real estate objects in the cosmic picture of modern Lutsk, museum visitors have the opportunity to personally look into the historical microtoponymics of the Volyn capital. In the dungeon of the сhurch there is a unique necropolis, where 49 brothers and sisters are buried. Visit to it is only possible with a guide.
Museum of Lutsk Brotherhood offers a series of thematic excursions of the scientific, cognitive and educational directions and separate lectures on the Volyn regional study.
Sun-Thu
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Days off: Friday, Saturday
Tickets
70 UAH for adults
50 UAH for children, students, pensioners
Address: 5 Yov Kondzelevych Street
Phone number: +38 095 785 24 81
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.
