Zhytomyr Regional Museum

Now the museum holds more than 150 thousand. Monuments of nature, history and culture of the region. The most interesting among them are real monuments of the ancient city Raykovetskogo IX-XIII c .; samples of clothing, carpets and handicrafts Zhytomyr Polissya different periods; books from the Ghanaian-Zhevusskih library; memorabilia outstanding compatriots. Museum decoration - a collection of Western European art XVI - early XX centuries. The art department of the museum, created in 1919, has incorporated part of the nationalized private collections, among which the most famous collection of Baron de Volyn Shoduar (Zhitomir) and Ilyinskikh-Stetsky town of Romanov. Here are concentrated works of leading art schools in Europe: Italy, the Netherlands, Flanders, France, Austria and Poland.