Museum of Local History, Kryvyi Rih
The main museum of the Kryvyi Rih area since 1960: more than 113,000 items from the Palaeolithic to the industrial city.
The museum was founded by a resolution of 1960 and opened to visitors in 1968. The holdings number 113,936 items, 60,285 of them in the main fund, and the exhibition occupies 1,100 m². The palaeontological collection contains remains of Cenozoic marine organisms, the archaeological one spans from the Middle Palaeolithic to the late Middle Ages, including the gold decoration of a sceptre of the 4th millennium BC. The historical section covers the age of the Zaporozhian Sich and the city's growth from a settlement to an industrial centre, the ethnographic one — more than 300 rushnyk towels. The museum has branches: the district local history museum in Terny and the flat-museum of the painter Hryhorii Synytsia.
16-A Kaunaska Street, Tsentralno-Miskyi district. According to travels.in.ua (26.06.2025): 8:30–17:00, closed Friday; ticket 20 UAH, tour 55 UAH; tel. +380 564 902 812 — check. The city is regularly attacked (27.09.2026): during an alert — take shelter.