Petro Ozerov Museum Room

The Petro Ozerov Museum Room is located in the building of the Novomyrhorod City Council. It was founded by Petro Ozerov — a Ukrainian researcher, archaeologist and local historian. The room opened in 2013. Its exhibition includes more than 2000 items. Among them are a variety of archaeological finds from the Trypillia and Goth periods to the present day. Special attention should be paid to the collection of old printed editions. It preserves a surviving psalter from 1710, a 1793 Old Believer collection, in which there are more than 1000 pages written in Old Church Slavonic. There are also more recent valuable exhibits. For example, a copy of the Act of Proclamation of Independence, signed by L. Kravchuk. It was donated by the Kosharnyi family from Canada, Ontario. The copy was made in Toronto in 1995 in a small print run. One of them ended up in Ukraine.

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Interesting facts:

• The museum does not prohibit taking the exhibits in your hands or touching them.
• The museum's pride and the most interesting exhibit is a working gramophone with records. One of them dates from 1935, and it features songs by Ivan Patorzhynskyi (“I Would Take a Bandura”).
• Petro Ozerov donated part of the exhibits to the museums of Kyiv, the Novomyrhorod Local History Museum and the Kirovohrad Regional Local History Museum.