Kyiv region

Boyarka

Mykhaila Hrushevskoho street, 49

Boyarsk Museum of Local Lore

The municipal institution “Boyarsky Museum of Local Lore” of the Boyarsk City Council is a local history museum in the city of Boyarka, created on the basis of the Literary and Memorial Museum of the Soviet writer M. O. Ostrovsky [1] is the author of the novel “How Steel Was Hardened”, the action of which partly takes place in Boyarka. In 1974, the literary and memorial museum of M. Ostrovsky was opened in the city of Boyarka in Kyiv region on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his birth.Already during the independence of Ukraine, in 1992, the museum was repurposed translated into local lore, re-exposition was carried out accordingly. The funds of the new essentially museum were formed on the materials of local local scholars I. Ivanova, V. Kubrenkova, V. Gorinovycha, A. Janush.Nowadays (2000s) the Boyarsk Museum of Local Lore is the center of the cultural life of the city and the district, it hosts educational and educational work, various exhibitions, presentations, creative meetings. The museum, namely the exposition dedicated to Nikolay Ostrovsky and his work, remains popular with visitors, especially from China. The funds of the Boyarsk Museum of Local Lore include more than 10 thousand objects, including printed materials, numismatics, painting, graphics, archaeological materials, memoirs, philately, photographs and ethnography. All these things characterize the material and spiritual heritage of the Ukrainian people, their family and social heritage. The ethnographic collection of the museum includes about one thousand items: towels, embroidery, shirts, carpets, clothes, women's jewelry, household items, etc. [2]. A significant part of the museum collection consists of exhibits related to the name of Nikolay Ostrovsky — documents, photographs, memorials, books of the writer, which were published in different countries, works of art, books and collections of poems of people of “Korchagin fate” remained in the museum's funds, video recording of the TV film “How Garry steel” of Chinese cinematographers. A significant place in the exposition of the museum is occupied by the works of local artists V. Grigorieva, K. Polyakova, F. Glushchuk, Yu. Mohori, V. Shevchenko, E. Ryabova, K. Kudryashova (in total, there are more than a thousand works of fine art in the museum collection). In the Boyarsk Museum of Local Lore there are exhibitions of artistic and decorative works, art meetings, thematic lectures from the series “Boyarka literaturna”, dedicated to V. Samiilenko, S. Nadson, Sholom Aleichem. Ukrainian poet-lyricist, satirist, playwright and translator Vladimir Samiylenko found his last refuge in Boyarka. Every year, on February 3, at the grave of the literary figure, museum workers spend days in memory of him, and the museum has a permanent exhibition dedicated to him.