The M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum (
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: Харківський історичний музей імені М. Ф. Сумцова, ''Kharkivskyi Istorychnyi Muzei Imeni M. F. Sumtsova'') is a
history museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...
located in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.[Ukraine
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. 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
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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 the Kharkiv region.
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
See also
*
Mykola Sumtsov
References
External links
Official site of the M.F.Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum*
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Museums established in 1920
Museums in Kharkiv
History museums in Ukraine
Culture in Kharkiv