Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum
Museum of the Dnipro region since 1849, with a famous open-air row of stone babas.
The museum descends from the Public Museum of Antiquities founded in Katerynoslav in 1849, and moved in 1905 into a purpose-built hall by Yakiv Sandetsky and Heorhiy Panafutin on what is now Dmytra Yavornytskoho Avenue. Its character was set by the historian Dmytro Yavornytsky, director from 1902, who gathered Cossack material and archaeology across the steppe; the museum took his name in 1940 and was granted national status in 2010. The holdings now run to roughly 283,000 items.
The best-known part of the museum stands outside: a lapidary of 86 carved stone figures, from anthropomorphic stelae of the third millennium BC and Scythian stelae to some seventy Polovtsian stone babas, one of the largest such assemblages anywhere. Indoor galleries cover the archaeology of the Dnipro rapids, the Zaporozhian Sich, and the industrial city of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Seven branches include the Yavornytsky house-museum, a literary museum and a museum of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Highlights
- Open-air lapidary of 86 stone figures, including 70 Polovtsian babas
- Cossack and Zaporozhian Sich material collected by Yavornytsky
- Purpose-built museum hall of 1905 on the main avenue
- Seven branches, among them the Battle for the Dnieper diorama
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