Attractions of Romny district

The Peoples Museum of the Vilshana Village History in Sumy Oblast has been operating at the Vilshana Lyceum since 2002. It was created on the initiative of local educators.

The exposition tells about the ancient history of the region, the foundation and development of the village of Vilshana, the Holodomor of 1932-1933, the events of World War II, the Chornobyl tragedy, etc.

The museum collection, assembled with the participation of schoolchildren, has over 800 exhibits. These are numerous antiques, fragments of weapons and military equipment, historical documents, old photographs.

A special exhibit is the flag brought by school graduate Oleksandr Zayika from the area where the joint forces operation was conducted in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The Literary Museum of Writers Leonid Poltava and Yosyp Dudka operates in the village of Pustoviitivka at the Pustoviitivka Secondary School named after Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The institution opened in 2006 as a memorial museum of the poet, publicist, and public figure Leonid Poltava to mark the 85th anniversary of his birth. The museum's exposition introduces the life and creative path of Leonid Poltava, editions of his books in English and Ukrainian, family photos, performance posters, opera and operetta librettos, collections of badges, key chains, coins, stamps, envelopes, and personal belongings of Leonid Poltava, which were donated to the museum by his family from New York.

Later, a museum exposition was opened to mark the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yosyp Dudka - a famous poet and teacher of Romny region, an extraordinary person, and an ardent patriot of his land.