Makeevsky Art and Local Lore Museum

The Museum of Local History of Makeevka was opened in 1958. The full collection of the museum includes written and handwritten materials collected since its opening, and consists of eight halls, two of which are exhibition halls. The total number of exhibits of the museum is about 30 thousand items.

The pride of the museum are ethnographic, geological, archaeological, paleontological and numismatic collections.

The museum also includes a large collection of ethnography of Ukraine, as part of agricultural equipment, tools, folk clothes.

The numismatic collection includes about 3,000 copies, of various times. The most interesting exhibits of the museum are the finds found on the territory of Makeevka: Neanderthal tips, bronze Scythian tips, Scythian daggers, as well as paleontological fossils.

The most valuable exhibit of the museum is the Acheulian cutting, found directly on the territory of Makeevka.