Pereyaslav Reserve

The national historical and ethnographic reserve "Pereyaslav" is located on the territory of the Ukrainian city of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky. The reserve includes about four hundred monuments and objects of cultural heritage, as well as 24 thematic museums, most of which are located in architectural monuments: in peasant huts, churches and so on. The main fund of the reserve includes about 180 thousand exhibits.

The area of the open-air museum is about 30 hectares, and here you can get acquainted with the history and life of the Middle Dnieper. Here are the materials of the settlements of the Copper and Bronze Ages, elements of the Tripoli and Chernyakhov cultures, Scythian tribes, as well as ancient Russian idols. Here the life of various segments of the population is recreated, in the reserve you can see picturesque huts, including the poor man's hut, and the house of a wealthy farmer, and the healer's hut.

There are 11 wooden churches here, including the Ostoyansky Cossack Church, built in 1606, the Pischetsky Cossack Church built in 1651, the Andrushevsky Church, built in 1767, and so on. The largest collection of 16 windmills in Ukraine is also of interest.

In the museum you can admire the Ukrainian towels, characterized by a variety of embroidery, and the museum of land transport presents sleds, carts, carts and so on, about 60 exhibits.