Open-air Museums of Ukraine

One of the first open air museums in Ukraine is located in the historic part of Uzhhorod, on the southern slope of Castle Hill, beneath the walls of a medieval castle. Here one can view architectural monuments of the ancient Zakarpattia village and samples of the oldest and most common types of folk art.

The great Ukrainian, writer, poet, artist and cultural figure Taras Shevchenko loved Ukraine with all his heart. He conveyed in his works all the beauty of nature and life of people. Just as in his works, there are 120 architectural monuments from all over Western Ukraine in the territory of the Shevchenko Grove Museum.

Wrapped on both sides of the wide Dnipro River, Khortytsia Island rises above a river and is surrounded by rocks and sandy shores. Zaporizhzhia Sich is the soul and heart of Ukrainian Cossacks. The glorious past of Cossack warriors is glorified by poets, artists and historians.

The historical and architectural complex "The residence of Bohdan Khmelnitskyy" was built on the site of the former capital of Hetman Ukraine in the middle of the seventeenth century — the glorious city of Chyhyryn.

Bohdan Zinoviy Khmelnytskyy is a legendary personality, a hetman of Zaporizhzhia Army, a talented commander, a leader for independence of the Ukrainian people, the founder of the first in the history of the Ukrainian state — the Hetmanate.

On the outskirts of the city of Pereyaslav, there is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in the Middle Naddnipryanshchyna. Among the singing of birds and rustling leaves, the shadows of tall perennial trees, there are monuments of folk architecture of the XVIII-XIX centuries, houses with lands, more than twenty thousand pieces of folk art, objects of everyday life and tools collected in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine.

Behind the thick trees at the mouth of the Lybid River, there is a small Ukrainian village, the Mamayeva Sloboda Museum.

Cossack Mamai is a national Ukrainian national image of a Cossack warrior, symbolizing the image of the entire Ukrainian people. Therefore, the museum has absorbed the national flavor, everyday life of architecture and economy during the heyday of Ukrainian Cossacks.

Steep hills, wide fields, creaking mills and churches, cozy Ukrainian farmhouses - all imbued with the spirit of rich Ukrainian history. On the outskirts of Kiev, there is an open-air museum in which you can visit different parts of Ukraine and make a peculiar journey through time, revealing the secrets and life of the Ukrainian people throughout its history.