Archaeology Museum, Trypillia
The village that gave a whole culture its name — and the museum that explains it.
In 1896 Vikentii Khvoika found traces of an unknown age in Trypillia, Zhukivtsi and Staiky in the Kyiv region. The name “Trypillia culture” took hold in his papers on the 1901 excavations near Kaniv and Rzhyshchiv — after the village where he first saw it. The museum itself began in 1959 as a school room set up by the history teacher Semen Omelchenko; in 1995–1996 it was turned into an archaeological museum, and in its present form the Kyiv Regional Archaeology Museum has worked since May 2002. Divych Hill is a kilometre away.
Mon–Thu 9:00–17:00, Fri 9:00–16:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–16:00; on holidays the schedule may change (museum website, 23.08.2026). 12 Heroiv Trypillia Street. On 30.09.2026 russia attacked the Trypillia thermal power plant in Ukrainka, in the same community as Trypillia (FAKTY, 30.09.2026).