Volynskyi Local History Museum

The Volyn Museum of Local History is the main museum of the Volyn region and the largest and oldest of Volyn's working museums. Opened on 16 June 1929 in Lutsk as the Volyn Museum, it became an important centre for studying and preserving the historical, cultural and natural heritage of Volyn. In 1940 the regional history museum was organised on its basis. During the Second World War the collection suffered heavy losses, but as early as 1944, immediately after the Nazi invaders were driven out of the region, the museum resumed work as the Volyn State Museum of History and Local Lore. On 17 August 1985 it opened in a new building in the centre of Lutsk. Today the Volyn Museum of Local History includes five more museums: its branch, the Lesia Ukrainka Literary and Memorial Museum in Kolodiazhne (1949), with its sector, the "Forest Song" Museum in Nechymne (2004); and four departments – the Art Museum (1973), the Museum of the Volyn Icon (1993) and the Museum of the History of the Lutsk Brotherhood (2011) in Lutsk, the Viacheslav Lypynskyi Memorial Museum (2011) in Zaturtsi, Volodymyr-Volynskyi district, and Olyka Castle (2021). The museum's collection now holds more than 172,000 items belonging to the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine: archaeological finds, ethnographic materials, collections of old icons, numismatic treasures, documents and objects illustrating the development of Volyn from ancient times to the present. Social media links: