Radomysl Castle Museum

Not everyone knows that in Radomyshl one of the largest unique collections of icons is housed in the Radomyshl Castle-Museum, restored in 2007. The museum exhibition contains about 5000 household icons, made in a variety of techniques and on different materials. In the museum there are also multi-meter household iconostases, Cossack and Hutsul kovchegs, collected from various corners of Ukraine. The collection includes exhibits from different centuries, starting from XVII and up to the present day.

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The museum is housed in a castle standing on the site of a former paper mill. It was built in 1612. So visitors to the museum have the opportunity to appreciate not only the beauty of the icons, but also to witness the process of paper making using 17th-century technology.

Interesting facts:

• The oldest exhibit in the museum is a stone icon of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (12th century).
• A park lies around the castle, with the Myka River flowing nearby, and ancient coniferous forests stretching around it.
• The castle concert hall impresses with its acoustics, which many theater halls could envy.
• The paper mill existed for 30 years and produced paper mainly for the printing house of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.