Etnohrafichnyi muzei-sadyba “Hul’cha” (Ethnographic Museum and Estate “Hulcha”)

Museum and Estate

Rivne Oblast, Zdovbytsia Territorial Community (Hromada), Druha Hilcha Village.

50.44052, 26.2481

24 km

The Museum and Estate has 10 buildings and structures located on a land plot of 2.5 hectares, which will be partially moved from other places, and other reproductions according to sketches, designs and architectural solutions of the 19th-20th centuries. The overall objective of creating this museum is to reflect the life, work, life, traditions, crafts of peasants and industrialists, as well as to preserve historical, ethnographic and cultural heritage. Most of the machines and mechanisms that will be presented in the Museum and Estate are made at enterprises owned by Czechs (Czech settlers), who lived at that time in Ostroh and Rivne Povits of the  Volhynian Governorate. Such enterprises were in the Hulcha village, Kvasyliv urban-type settlement, and Zdolbuniv city.

The creators plan that the museum will be an active agricultural production, starting from sowing, harvesting, threshing and ending with the production of flour and cereals in a burrmill and hulling mills according to the technology of the 19th – early 20th century.

All presented machines, mechanisms, equipment, tools, agricultural equipment, household items are absolutely authentic: they were manufactured in the 19th – 20th centuries, restored, they are fully functional and will be used for their intended purpose. All this is done on the equipment, which is more than 100 years old and which is driven by a horse drive or steam engine without the use of electricity, as it was not there at that time.

The restoration workshop will be engaged in the restoration of objects for the permanent renewal of the museum’s exposition. The aforementioned smithy and carpentry workshops will be used for full-fledged work of this workshop, furthermore, there will be cooperation with other museum organisations.

The creators also plan to build existing mini-productions:

• mini-hop mill (a hop mill located in the Kvasyliv urban-type settlement, which belonged to the Czech Mr. Perny will be the sample);
• mini-foundry (a foundry in the Kvasyliv urban-type settlement, which belonged to the Czech settler Mr. J. Swarovski will be the sample); memories and historical information about the foundry in the village  of Hulcha, which belonged to Mr. I. Starek);
• mini-brewery (samples: Zeman’s Brewery in Kvasyliv and Šmolik’s Brewery in Hlynsk).

Source: https://geo-rivne.com/sadiba_gulcha