Verteba Cave Museum, Bilche-Zolote
Ukraine's first underground museum: Trypillian pottery where it was left.
A gypsum cave in the Borshchiv area, called the Dniester Pompeii for the number and weight of its finds. The first descriptions date from the 18th–19th centuries; the archaeological survey was made in 1876 by Adam Kirkor, in the 1890s Gotfryd Ossowski worked here, in 1928 the poet and archaeologist Oleh Olzhych, and in the 1960s the Ternopil cavers of Volodymyr Radziievskyi surveyed the underground labyrinth. The passages run about 8–9 km by various measurements; the tour route is one kilometre. On 5 October 2004 Ukraine's first underground museum of the Trypillia culture opened here, a branch of the Borshchiv Local History Museum.
It is cold underground all year — bring something warm. Visits are organised by the Warm Podillia visitor centre (Hazeta Misto, 11.08.2026). The front is far away, but drones reach the Ternopil region too: in September air defence went into action twice in Ternopil (RBC-Ukraine, 03.09.2026; my.ua, 29.09.2026), so during an alert look for a shelter.