Educational and interesting: the best museums to visit in Ukraine

Cold weather is not a reason to stay at home. It is a time to travel to places where you can deepen your knowledge of history and have a good time. Thus, it's time to visit exhibition halls, where wonderful exhibits, old household items and national costumes from all over the country are collected.

By the way, there are many centers dedicated to the present. In their pavilions, you won't find anything from the past, but you will get acquainted with scientific inventions, aviation, the underwater world, etc. It will be interesting for both kids and adults. Read on to find out which locations in Ukraine are worth visiting.

Hutsul Magic Museum

We begin our journey in a region where many secrets and wonders are hidden. In the village of Verkhovyna, Ivano-Frankivsk region, there is a house of molfars. It contains everything that healers used to help people. There are tools for making potions and a magic staff that was used to reconcile couples through divination. There is even an unusual knife that wizards used to disperse clouds when it rained or snowed for a long time.

On the territory of the complex, you can not only see the healers' homes, but also go spinning or take part in a calligraphy workshop. If you visit this region, be sure to visit the Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors Film Museum. It was built not far from this area.

Museum of Childhood

It is possible to return to happy childhood years! There is a center in Kharkiv where many toys from the past are collected. It was founded by collector Valerii Leiko. The man is so passionate about his work that he conducts excursions on his own.

Here are the toys that not only we but also our great-grandmothers used to play with. There are exhibits of the XIX-XX centuries on the shelves. And now the most interesting part: you can touch and even play with them. The owner will gladly give the child any object and will tell its story.

By the way, you can come here more than once. Getting bored is not what you can say about this project. The exhibitions change 4 times a year. In addition, there are themed quests and interactive lectures where visitors learn about geography, astronomy, paleontology, archeology, calligraphy, and collecting. The museum also sometimes organizes field excavations.

Vasyl Pinchuk Museum of Sound

The exhibition hall is located in Odesa. It contains all kinds of old devices that used to be used to listen to music long ago. The collection starts with the cassette tape recorders we know and ends with gramophones, radios, and gramophones. Of course, there are also vinyl records to listen to. The walls of the gallery are decorated with posters, labels with company logos, and posters.

This place has incredible music. Every exhibit item is working, and there are about seven hundred of them here. Vasyl Pinchuk founded the center back in 1997. In addition to getting to know unusual musical equipment, you can learn about the history of recording equipment and how the professions of chansonier and tapper came to be.

Museum of Ideas

It is located in Lviv in a very special place - the building of the Bernardine monastery The building itself appeared in the XVII century. This is the place to go for inspiration as it is here that the most daring projects and performances of contemporary art are realized.

It is a space of freedom, dreams, the most crazy ideas, cultural events, and non-standard solutions. The gallery has a shop where you can buy various works of art. There is also a small restaurant where you can enjoy traditional Galician cuisine.

Museum of Smuggling

Another exhibition hall from Odesa that should be paid attention to. It houses the most unusual things that people have ever tried to smuggle through customs. If you think it's just jewelry and cigarettes, you're wrong. The center contains more than 150 items that are very different.

The pavilion includes toys used to transport cocaine, boot heels for jewelry, and a car door that hid $1.8 million. Of course, you can book a tour and learn the history of each object. By the way, the collection is constantly updated.

Ukrainian Wedding Museum

An old hut that houses Ukrainian wedding dresses, carpets, and towels was built in the village of Velyki Budyshcha in Poltava Oblast. These items are not just ordinary exhibits but also props for its employees. So, when you come here, you will visit a real holiday. You will see a matchmaking and a wedding ceremony. Of course, with all the rituals, songs and jokes.

You can touch all the pieces. You will be willingly offered to take the pot out of the oven with a special fork. Be prepared that no one will let you go empty-handed. Delicious hot pies will be given to you for the way home.

Don't stay at home in cool weather, travel! There are still plenty of places you should visit, so buy tickets right now and go to the cities where the most interesting museums in Ukraine are located.

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