The Uman Museum of Local Lore is located in the building of a former private hospital (1902).
The history of the museum's foundation dates back to 1906, when, on the initiative of teacher and local historian Danil Shcherbakovsky, the Society of Antiquity lovers was created. The official opening of the Historical Museum of Uman region took place in 1918.
The exhibits of the three departments tell about the emergence of life on Earth, geological structure, minerals, water system, soils, climate, plant and animal world. Samples of granites, kaolin, brown coal are presented to the attention of visitors; there are stuffed animals and birds listed in the “" Red Book of Ukraine "”.
The historical department presents a model of the Uman fortress, samples of ancient weapons and armor.

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Uman Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Ukraine. The official opening of the museum, which was then called “Historical Museum of Uman region”, took place in November 1917 in the premises of the I Ukrainian Gymnasium named after B.Grinchenko. The founder and first director of the museum was the famous Ukrainian archaeologist and art critic Petro Kurinnyi.
In 1923, the museum received the status of the state, the name “District Social and Historical Museum of Uman Region” and a new building, which still houses the building of the architectural monument of the early 20th century, the former private hospital of the therapist Matilda Piotrovska. In 1931, the museum was renamed the Uman Regional Museum of Local Lore.
Due to the historical and artistic value of the fund collection and the scientific potential of its employees, the Uman Museum had a fairly high status in Ukraine. In his funds there was a collection of priceless works of prominent masters of the XVI-XVIII centuries, among them the original engravings of Rembrandt, the lithograph of 1509, paintings of the classics of the XVIII-XIX centuries. An impressive collection of precious decorative and household utensils of Western European and Chinese porcelain, sculpture, tapestries, furniture. The rich numismatic collection included a collection of seals and rings. The library had 4,240 books and more than 1,000 antiquities.
Thus, during the Second World War, the museum was looted. The Hitler occupiers took away the most valuable collections: paintings by Spanish, Dutch, Polish artists, archaeological, numismatic collections, furniture of the XVI-XVII centuries, old prints. On March 30, 1944, the exhibition halls were reopened for viewing.
Uman Museum of Local Lore today is a scientific and educational institution. The main directions of his activity are the collection, scientific study and comprehensive educational use of museum objects.

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The stock collection of the Uman Museum of Local Lore has about 50 thousand exhibits. Among them are unique archaeological and numismatic collections, objects of decorative and applied arts, military-historical, historical and domestic, artistic, documentary and photographic documents. The exposition of the Uman Museum of Local Lore, located in the exhibition halls, extensively covers the history of Uman region from ancient times to the present day and the nature of the region. Exhibitions created on the basis of the museum's stock collections are annually exhibited in the halls of the museum. The museum has 4 departments: art gallery, museum of culture and life of Uman region, museum of literary and art figures of Uman region, apartment-museum of outstanding Ukrainian patriot Nadiya Surovtseva. Scientists of the museum made a certain contribution to the development of archaeological science, local studies, ethnography. These, in particular, include: M. Kurinnyi — Ukrainian archaeologist (discovered Belogrudian culture in 1918), H. Yashurzhinsky — historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, M. Yakymovych — archaeologist (discovered the Vladimirovsk Paleolithic site), G. Hraban is a local historian, author of numerous scientific and popular scientific articles on the history of Uman region and monograph “Outbreak of popular anger”, made a complete archaeological survey of Uman region, P. Bezvenhlinsky — geologist, V. Stefanovych — archaeologist-local historian, L. Melnyk is a famous Ukrainian historian, N. Surovtsova — Ukrainian writer, public figure, I. F. Schmalhausen, O. IN. Nosachenko [3]. Of course, I am simply not able to tell about every exhibit of the local history museum. But about the feeling that I experienced, getting acquainted with those artifacts - I can. Passing by, looking through hall after hall, there is a growing sense of mystery, something that you will not see in ordinary life. There is something unusual inside you. You feel the history of past centuries floating before your eyes. It seems that you only have to want to - and you grab hold of it, it will penetrate you, absorb you from the inside and you will forever become a part of it, a part of the food story, which will no longer let you go, but will forever keep the memory of you on its shelves. However, in order to do so, we must also contribute to this story. This is the price of memory. Getting acquainted with each new hall, you can carefully see the facts, the reality of those events that he knew about from school lessons on the history of Ukraine. I would like to note one museum exhibit. Legendary, you might say. It is a metal icon of the Savior in Prison of the first half of the 18th century, which spent more than thirty years in storage and was considered hopelessly spoiled by time. The image of Christ was completely updated, the image became bright, as if the icon was repainted. People who are near the icon claim that even heat comes from it. Many non-believers in this museum have revised their attitude to religion. For the first time in history, the miracle of renewal did not happen with a wooden image, but with an image made on metal. It's really amazing! Therefore, we can summarize what was reviewed in the local history museum: once you get there, you find yourself in several worlds at once, regardless of which part of the museum you are in.

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