M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum

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History museum in Kharkiv, Ukraine

M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum
Historic site
Харківський історичний музей імені М. Ф. Сумцова



Former name	Museum of Sloboda Ukraine
Established	21 January 1920; 104 years ago (1920-01-21)
Location	Universytetska Street Kharkiv, Ukraine
Coordinates	49°59′33″N 36°13′50″E / 49.9925°N 36.2305°E / 49.9925; 36.2305
Type	History museum
Collection size	approx. 330 thousands objects
Founder	Mykola Sumtsov
Director	Volodymyr Tsyhulov
Owner	Kharkiv Oblast Council
Public transit access	Istorychnyi Muzei (Kharkiv Metro); Maidan Konstytutsii (Kharkiv Metro)
Website	museum.kh.ua

Immovable Monument of Local Significance of Ukraine
Official name	«Ломбард» (Pawnshop)
Type	Urban Planning, Architecture
Reference no.	7440-Ха

The M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum (Ukrainian: Харківський історичний музей імені М. Ф. Сумцова, Kharkivskyi Istorychnyi Muzei Imeni M. F. Sumtsova) is a history museum located in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Its dedicated to history and culture of Ukraine and ethnicities living here.

History

The museum was established in 1920 by Mykola Sumtsov as the Museum of the Sloboda Ukraine (Музей Слобідської України). It got the best collections from Kharkiv University Museum and the city Art and Industry Museum.

The collection of Kharkiv University Museum started to accumulate in 1804. Its objects were used for students teaching. This collection was one of the first museum collections in Ukraine. The city Art and Industry Museum was founded in 1886. Its ethnographic collection was one of the largest and best among all city museums in Russian Empire. In 1902 the nationwide Archaeological Congress was held in Kharkiv. A huge previous search work was conducted. There were collected a large number of valuable objects of history, ethnography, art that revealed history and culture of inhabitants of the region. For participants of the Congress the exhibitions were created to demonstrate these objects. Later most of the objects became a part of the collection of M.F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum. The World War II was a heavy blow to the museum's collections. At this time a significant part of the collection has been lost.

On June 18, 2015, the museum was named after its founder and first director — Mykola Sumtsov. Today the M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum retains the significance of the research, scientific-methodical and cultural-educational center of Kharkiv Oblast.

Exhibitions

Archeology of the Kharkiv region
Kharkiv region during middle ages and cossack era
Ethnic traditions of the Kharkiv region
Cossack era in ukrainian history
Kharkiv during 19th century
Kharkivites on the fronts of World War I (1914–1918)
Kharkiv region in the Revolution of 1917 and interwar period (1917–1940)
World War ІІ
Kharkiv in Soviet time, 1943–1991
Antiterrorist operation and Kharkiv region

Gallery

Kurgan steles in M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum

Cuman Statue (second from the left) on Constitution Square in Kharkiv.
Cuman Statues on Constitution Square in Kharkiv.
Polovtsian women on the square Constitutions in Kharkov
Next to the Kharkiv Historical Museum named after M.F. Four Polovtsian stone statues - balbals ("Polovtsian women"), created in the 12th century, were installed in Sumtsov. The statues were found on the territory of the Kharkiv region. One of the statues was found in pre-revolutionary times, two - in the 1930s, and one was found by employees of the archeology department of the historical museum as a result of archaeological research in the Loziv district in 1980 at the bottom of the Britai River.