Museum of the Ukrainian Towel is a thematic museum, part of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve “Pereyaslav”. Opened in May 1995. The museum presents all types of towels of the Middle Nadnepr region of the XIX-XX centuries: woven, ruffled, embroidered with decorative braid (Kiev and Poltava), gaping (dried), cross, carving, lace, etc. Presented are 300 towels [1], including: — Pereyaslav towels — home-woven long and wide, with complex compositions, decorated with red threads interspersed with blue or black; — Polish towels — narrow and long, decorated throughout the space with gray and white threads geometric ornament; — Chernihiv — woven, decorated with stylized images of plants, birds, animals, as well as patterns in the form of monasteries, bell towers, tribunes of Ukrainian churches and huts; Poltava - with the image of the tree of life; - Slobozhansky - decorated with a branched ornament embroidered with a tambourine seam; - mohair monastic - embroidered by nuns in the 19th century. at monasteries. The collection of the reserve contains 24 original monastery towels; — battered towels — made by master bulldozers on special broken boards in the war and post-war years.