The Yavoriv Zabavka. Treasury of the Yavoriv Region

Fortunate are those who have held on to their own distinctive toys — some of the very first playthings through which a child comes to know the world.

 

Yasinia. The Museum of Local History

Every town or village ought to begin with a museum of local history or at least a museum room. Local history exhibitions preserve our traditions and cultural heritage, our historical records and objects of the past; they shape the national ethnic code and touch the state of the soul. In Yasinia, in the Zakarpattia region, one of the finest museums of local history in the district has been running since 1966.

Yasinia. Museum of Local History

Lviv. The Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture and Nature

We live in a hard time, when mental pain is familiar to us all and outweighs physical pain. Some cannot cope with their affliction on their own and end up in a specialised institution that in common speech is called a madhouse or a "loony bin". People have always needed psychiatric support. In Ukraine one of the oldest hospitals for the mentally ill first admitted patients in 1875, on the outskirts of Lviv. Over 150 years this "house for the mad" has grown into a large psychiatric centre with a wide range of treatment and prevention wards.

 

Lviv. The Regional Psychiatric Hospital

Monuments to T. H. Shevchenko Across Ukraine

From our school lessons we remember the dates tied to the life and work of Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko. 1814 — 1861 — these are the 47 years of the life's journey of a great poet, playwright, artist and public figure, at the dawn of industrial development in Ukraine and of the peasant movement against serfdom. Shevchenko spent 24 years in serfdom and 10 years in exile. There is a number that grows year by year — the number of monuments and memorial markers raised in honour of the national poet.

 

Ternopil. Monument to T. H. Shevchenko. 1982. Sculptors M. Neveselyi and S. Kalashnyk

Lviv. The Museum of Electrification of the Lviv Region

Electrification, which supplies energy to industry and to household consumers, has taken on a special importance during the war in Ukraine. How the making and the growth of electrification in Lviv and the region came about can be learned at the Museum of the History of Electrification of the Lviv Region, which is housed in the building of the advisory centre for work with electricity consumers.

 

Lviv. The Museum of the History of Electrification of the Lviv Region