REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF VIA REGIA UKRAINE IN OSTROH

Current status of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve was approved by the Rivne regional council in 2013. In addition, 3 architectural monuments of a national significance are included in the reserve, and its museum collections belong to the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine, which is a national heritage.

Architectural monuments included in the reserve:

Scheineberg House, built in the 1910s.

City Gate (Zaslavskaya Gate), first mentioned in 1596

The oven, built in the XVII century, that remained intact until current times

Trinity Monastery (ancestral monastery of the Ostroh princes), known from the XV century

Lutsk Tower (now a museum of books and printing)

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – a monument of Christian sacred construction

Tatar tower of XIV-XVII centuries

The New Tower (Round) – an outstanding monument of defense architecture of Ukraine of the XVI century

The brick tower – the first defensive stone building of Ostroh Castle

After Ostroh was included in the USSR, Ostroh museum got a national status, staffing and respective budget funding in February 1940, as well as the standard for the Soviet cultural nomenclature name: “Ostroh Historical Museum”.

Recently, the reserve became one of the winners of the cultural and artistic contest “Small towns – big impressions”.  Another project of Ostroh residents “Interactive museum of old prints” is set to create accommodations for the cultural center functioning, and to renovate exhibitions in the Museum of Book and Printing. Staff of the museum note that the project has to strengthen the tourist appeal of the museum and the town overall.

The staff of the museum regularly perform interesting and educational tours, including the interactive tour-quest “In search of the treasures of the princes of Ostroh”.

Contacts:

State historical and cultural reserve in Ostroh
Head – Manko Mykola Pavlovych