The collection includes over 1,000 items, primarily focused on tiles. A significant portion of the ceramic tiles originate from the Bergenheim Society. Preserved samples also include examples of industrial art tiles by Vasyl Krychevsky. The museum also holds bricks and decorative friezes from Italy and Spain dating to the 20th century, crafted using manual labor.
The museum presents artistic literature, the history of literature in Slobozhanshchyna, and contemporary literary theory. Its exhibitions and educational programs demonstrate how literature influences people's lives and accumulates the cultural experiences of various communities.
Named after the singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko, the museum holds numerous items and memorabilia related to her. It regularly hosts memorial and poetry evenings.
Dedicated to the history of shipbuilding and navigation, the museum’s main collection is based on a private collection by Kharkiv resident Oleksandr Yakymenko. It features ship models, photographs, paintings, and souvenirs from various countries.
The archaeological museum became an independent institution in 1919, having separated from the State Museum of Nature of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The museum holds a collection of artifacts from the Bronze Age, Scythian period, Antiquity, Chernyakhiv and Saltiv cultures.
The museum collects and preserves exhibits that demonstrate the process of gender construction and societal manipulation of gender. It is the first and only gender (women’s) museum in Ukraine, the post-Soviet space, and Eastern Europe.
The museum's collection comprises over 2,000 items, with 500 on display, along with 36 pieces of railway equipment exhibited outdoors. The collection includes rare and historical items, unique documents and photographs—such as a handcart and tools used in building the railway through Kharkiv, a late 19th-century "Ericsson" wall telephone in a wooden case, railway company bonds, tickets and IDs from the Russian Empire era, and models of rolling stock.
Located in the building of the Emergency Medical Station Administration, built in 1914. Before the station’s establishment, Mykola Oleksandrovych Molokhov was appointed senior physician, organizing and equipping the station and remaining its head until his death. He created a museum in the central dispatch room that housed anatomical specimens, weapons, and poisons used by suicides. After his death in 1956, the exhibits disappeared. In 2000, the station’s staff restored and re-established the museum.
The first of its kind in the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe, the museum presents the sexual cultures of different countries around the world. Special attention is given to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS.
The museum's collection includes over 300,000 items representing the archaeological past, the 17th to 20th centuries, and contemporary regional history. It conducts extensive scholarly and educational activities and is one of the leading scientific and cultural centers of Eastern Ukraine.
One of the largest fine arts museums in Ukraine, with a substantial collection of visual and applied arts from Ukraine and Western countries. The museum is housed in the former estate of millionaire industrialist Ihnatyshchev, built in 1912 based on a design by architect Oleksiy Beketov.
The first non-governmental Holocaust museum in Ukraine. The museum houses around 3,000 exhibits and includes a library on the Holocaust. One section is dedicated to Jewish resistance during World War II, including uprisings in Auschwitz and other camps. The museum also addresses the issue of post-war silencing of Jewish tragedy.
17 Yahotynskyi Lane, on the grounds of the "Manometr" plant
The first museum of contemporary Ukrainian photography, founded in 2018. Its mission is to preserve, study, and promote modern Ukrainian photography. The museum’s collection includes over 2,500 photographs by more than 40 authors.
4 Svobody Square, 2nd floor, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
The museum's holdings comprise about 20,000 items, 10,000 photo negatives, and 16,000 digital images. The collection includes graduation photo albums from the late 19th to early 21st centuries, badges, medals, recorded interviews with alumni and staff, and personal collections of 233 prominent scholars and university affiliates, such as D. I. Bahalii, M. P. Barabashov, and O. V. Vetukhiv.
The museum is located in the apartment where the Gryzodubov family lived and contains exhibits related to the lives of Valentyna and Stepan Gryzodubov.
The first urban public museum in Ukraine and one of the first in the Russian Empire. Founded on 14 (26) December 1886 by writer and public figure G. Danilevsky with support from the Kharkiv City Duma. In 1920, its collection was transferred to the Museum of Sloboda Ukraine named after H. Skovoroda (now M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum), after which the museum was closed permanently. Over 25 artworks from its collection are preserved in the Kharkiv Art Museum.
Housed old icons, books, iconostasis carvings, church utensils, wooden sculptures, etc. Closed following the Bolshevik occupation of the city. During the Soviet occupation, most exhibits were lost.
An institution of Sovietanti-religious propaganda, established in 1930 in a former Lutheran church. It had 5 exhibition halls with 600 exhibits. The museum ceased to exist in June 1941.
1930–1941
Former church, where the Kharkiv Regional Anti-Religious Museum was opened in 1939
A memorial complex with a museum dedicated to World War II, the Afghan War, and the Russian-Ukrainian War, located at the former observation post at an altitude of 197.3 meters. The exhibition includes military equipment from various periods, weapons, uniforms, etc. The site also features a museum, obelisk, monuments, and a chapel.
A museum dedicated to commemorating the battles in Sokolove (Zmiiv district, Kharkiv Oblast), where in 1943, during World War II, Czechoslovak volunteers of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Battalion, led by Colonel Ludvík Svoboda, first fought against Nazi forces.
A museum dedicated to the life and work of philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda, located in an 18th-century manor where he lived. The collection includes several thousand items. The 18.2-hectare complex features national landmarks in history, architecture, monumental, and landscape art from the 18th century. On May 6, 2022, the museum building was destroyed by a direct hit from a Russian missile.
A historical and archaeological museum-reserve. Artifacts from the Verkhnii Saltiv archaeological complex — pottery, fishing gear, textile tools, weapons, jewelry, and other household items — are exhibited in museums across Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Sofia. Only a small portion remains in the Verkhnii Saltiv museum.
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