Kyiv region

Kopachiv village

Tsentralna street, 22/1

Archaeological and local history museum in Kopachiv village

Archaeological and local history museum in the village. Kopachev officially opened its doors on August 24, 2008 in the premises of the village council. On the second floor in two halls there is an exposition of the museum. The first hall presents local archaeological finds, and the second - local history materials. The village has a long history, because the first written mention of the Diggers dates back to 1118. Although the area itself was inhabited much earlier, and the museum exhibits undoubtedly confirm the presence of settlements and human stay on this land.In the exposition of the museum you can see the remains of mammoth bones found in the summer of 2000 by the expedition of the National Science and Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2006, a joint archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum was conducted in the Kolomyytsiv Yar tract, located between the villages of Kopachiv and the Kyiv Regional Archaeological Museum, under the leadership of Mikhail Yurievich Vidyko. about thirty vessels of the Trypillian culture. Today, these finds can be seen by museum guests: helmet-shaped and conical tires, fragments of ceramics, and, without exaggeration, the pearl of the exposition of the Trypillian culture, binoculars. In addition, during the same expedition, at a distance of 120 meters uphill from the found sites of the Trypillian culture, there were found materials of the ancient Russian time. Layers of clay and broken dishes have been preserved here. In the museum there are fragments of these vessels.In the second hall there are local antiquities, a fragment of the interior of the Ukrainian hut is recreated. Many diggers were involved in the creation of the local history exposition. So were transferred exhibits representing the history, life, art of Kopachev from the past to the present.