Description of the attraction
Kirovograd Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest in the Central region of Ukraine. The museum funds include over 80,000 exhibits.
The museum is located in the house of the merchant D. Barsky, which is a vivid example of early Art Nouveau. The interior of the room is executed in the Baroque style. The authorship of the project belongs to the architect Alexander Lishnevsky. According to legend, the merchant Barsky never had a chance to live in his new house, since he died immediately after the completion of all construction work.
The museum was founded in 83 of the 19th century thanks to the teacher of the real zemstvo school, ethnographer, historian, archaeologist V. Yastrebov and was located in the school. At that time, there were about 400 museum items in it, in the archaeological collection there were more than 2,000 items, but in 1899, after the death of Yastrebov, most of the museum's collection disappeared. In 1929 the premises of the merchant's house were transferred to the museum, where it is located now. During the Great Patriotic War, the museum's storerooms were plundered. More than ten thousand valuable exhibits were lost. But immediately after the war, in 1946, the museum was restored and opened its doors to its first visitors. Then it had two departments: nature and history of the Kirovograd region.
Today the museum has four stationary expositions that illuminate the history and nature of the region. The collection is based on a collection of antiquities (Kunstkamera) belonging to the private collector A. Ilyin, which consists of archaeological finds, paintings, icons. The exhibits of the paleontological collection, archaeological finds of the Trypillian, Cimmerian and Scythian cultures, and a collection of weapons attract particular attention. A special place is given to memorial things and archives of famous compatriots.
