Museum of Hetmanship

The Hetmanship Museum is devoted to the history of the Ukrainian Cossack statehood from the 17th to the 18th centuries, as well as the Ukrainian liberation struggle in the period from 1917 to 1921. The building where the museum is located was built during the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Currently, the museum has more than 8,000 exhibits. During the entire existence of the museum, collected materials revealed such important topics in the history of Ukraine as the national liberation war led by Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, the formation of the Cossack state, the state-building activities of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, the activities of Pylyp Orlyk, and others.

The museum has a significant collection of materials of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi's family. Many works of art were presented in 2004 by Olena Pavlivna Skoropadska. The museum also has 21 declassified archival materials of the office of the Hetman's Administration of Pavlo Skoropadsky, handed over from the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. A large part of the museum's collection consists of the "Painting", "Graphics" and "Sculpture" groups. The museum library has more than 3,000 books.