The Bila Tserkva Museum of Local Lore stands on Castle Hill in the very center of Bila Tserkva, at 4 Soborna Square. This is one of the largest collections of historical and cultural monuments in the south of the Kyiv region. The museum is open from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, with Wednesday as a day off.
How it appeared
The first attempt to create a museum was made in 1918 by members of Prosvita: they opened an archaeological museum from their own collections. The local history museum itself was founded in 1924 as a district museum of antiquities in the Winter Palace of the Branicki family. Its director, Serhii Drozdov, donated part of his collection to the museum and secured the return of part of the Branicki collection from Kyiv. The first exhibition opened in April 1925. Well-known collectors of antiquities — Karl Bolsunovskyi from Skvyra and Petro Dzbanovskyi from Tarashcha — also donated their collections to the museum.
What to see
Currently, the museum occupies a modern building on Castle Hill. The exhibition features archaeological finds from the city's outskirts, an ethnographic collection, a reconstructed Soviet apartment, and a hall about the war.
Nearby
Spaso-Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral and St. Nicholas Church are nearby on Soborna Square, Bila Tserkva — what to see in the city, Oleksandriia Park — the main attraction of the Branicki family.
