Attractions of Lutsk district

The wooden church of Saint George in Kutriv near Berestechko recently celebrated its 250th anniversary. The temple on the hill above the Styr River was built in 1761 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Berestechko.

During the Second World War, the bell tower was damaged.

As an architectural monument, Saint George's Church survived the Soviet times. The interior decoration has also been preserved. After the resumption of services in the 1970s, the iconostasis that was kept in Lutsk was returned to the church.

Recently, there was a threat of washing away the river bank and the collapse of the church, but thanks to the shore strengthening works, the architectural monument was saved from destruction.

The Museum of Science, Technology and Industrial Design (Museum of Technical Progress) opened in 2018 in the premises of the Adrenaline City Cultural and Entertainment Center on the northeastern outskirts of Lutsk, next to the Korsaks Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art.

The exposition acquaints visitors with the development of science and technology from the simplest devices of primitive times to the present.

The Museum of Science and Technology has 18 departments: music, architecture and design, light and optical, physico-chemical, military, medical, gaming, history of technological progress, physics and mechanics and others.

The Museum of Industrial Design presents examples of mass production at the intersection of art and technology. In particular, there are collections of watches, cameras, radio equipment, gramophones, tape recorders, telephones, computers. Among the interesting - a section of 3D puzzles from the famous Ukrainian toy manufacturer UGEARS.

All the exhibits can be touched with your hands.

The Ukrainian Svitlytsia Museum in the House of Culture of the village of Berezhanka in Volyn was equipped in 2018 by the director of the institution, Oksana Makarenko. A small ethnographic exposition currently occupies only one room.

The basis of the exposition is a collection of embroidered paintings, towels and shirts collected by the founder of the museum. Many of them were embroidered by Berezhanka craftsmen over half a century ago.

Also presented are ancient household items: jugs, makitras, pots, a mortar, a spinning wheel, a ruble, a butter churn, etc. All of these items were brought to the museum by local residents. Some of the exhibits are over 100 years old.

Torchyn People's History Museum bears the name of its founder - historian and local historian Hryhoriy Hurtovy.

This is the oldest museum in Volyn, which began to operate on a public basis - since 1957. The museum's holdings include more than 10,000 showpieces related to the history of Torchyn and the Volyn lands.

The local historian personally collected most of them in the surrounding villages. Among them are flint tools, a coin treasure of the beginning of the 16th century, Cossack weapons (in particular, an original mortar gun), fragments of ammunition of the soldiers of the two world wars, and a large ethnographic collection. A wardrobe and a mirror from the residence of the famous Polish writer Józef Ignacy Krashewski in nearby Horodok deserve special attention.

In 2009, the Torchyn Historical Museum named after Hryhoriy Hurtovyi took first place at the All-Ukrainian Museum Competition in the "History of the Native Territory" category.

The Volyn Regional Museum of the Ukrainian Army and Military Equipment was created in Lutsk on the initiative of the public organization "Dzherela".

The museum is located on the territory of a military town in the city center, in premises built in 1925. It is a branch of the National Military History Museum of Ukraine.

The exposition presents more than 1,000 exhibits, including aviation and armored vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft missile weapons, small arms, equipment and equipment of signal troops, battle flags, uniforms and army household items, documents and photographs, military trophies, etc.

A permanent exhibition "Pages of the Military History of the Volyn Region" has been opened.

Volyn Museum of Local Lore is the largest and oldest museum in Volyn. Founded in 1929.

It has been housed in the current building in the center of Lutsk since 1985. The funds contain more than 140 thousand exhibits representing nature, history, ethnography, art of the Volyn region.

The museum has a rich collection of natural materials, collections of geological minerals, plants and animals. The museum's collections are presented in the exposition, which consists of sections of nature, ancient and modern history, thematic exhibitions.

The exposition of the museum is located on an area of ​​more than 2 thousand square meters. m in 23 stationary and 9 exhibition halls. It is built on thematic (nature department) and thematic-chronological principles (history department).

In addition to classic excursions, various interactive events, quests, master classes and workshops are held here.

The branches and departments of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore are the Art Museum in the Lutsk Castle, the Volyn Icon Museum, the Lutsk Brotherhood History Museum, the Kolodiazhne Literary and Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka, the Zaturtsi Memorial Museum of Vyacheslav Lypynsky, and the Olyka Castle.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Crafts of Volyn is being created.