Kirovohrad regional Museum based on the collections of the first in the Kirovograd Museum real rural schools, 1883. Since 1929, the Museum is housed in the House of merchant Bar. The building itself has a historic value and is an architecture monument in the style of early modernism. The Museum collection contains more than 80 thousand items, which reflect the history of the region from ancient times to the present. On a permanent basis working 4 exposure: Nature edge Weapons in the history of mankind, the Edge of my kirovogradshchina in the years of the 2nd world war, Chernobyl: the pain, the anxiety. Takes place annually more than 40 exhibitions, created based on own collections, private collections and cultural centers of Ukraine and abroad. The pride of the collection is a collection of antiquities, curiosities, private collector A. Ilyin: archaeological finds, paintings and icons.