Museum of Pottery, Opishnia
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Ukraine's pottery capital: a museum-reserve of 60,000 works.
Opishnia has been known since the first half of the 17th century as a fortified sloboda; according to the ESU, from the second half of that century it was a significant trade and craft centre of Left-Bank Ukraine, famous for its pottery. More than half of the potters of the Poltava region lived here, every third family practised the craft, and in 1929 the “Khudozhnii Keramik” factory was founded; the settlement is called the pottery capital of Ukraine. The Museum of Pottery was founded on 11 March 1986; today it is the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery, which, according to its website, holds over 60,000 items. The comprehensive tour includes an open-air gallery of monumental clay sculpture, the Museum of the Krychevsky Artistic Family, and the memorial estates of Oleksandra Seliuchenko, the Poshyvailo family, Leonid Smorzh, Mykola Poshyvailo and Vasyl Omelianenko. After russia's invasion in 2022 the museum closed; it partially reopened on 23 August 2022 and almost fully in January 2023.
102 Viacheslava Chornovola Street; check the hours and prices on the museum's website before you travel. On 21.09.2026 debris from a russian drone damaged a school, a house of culture and private houses in the Opishnia community (Poltavshchyna, 21.09.2026). After a night attack on 09.08.2026 all the petrol stations in the community were destroyed (Ukrinform, 10.08.2026), so plan your refuelling in advance.