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The museum is temporarily closed. The collection and exhibitions are online. What’s available

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Virtual museum

Halls, exhibitions and collection objects — in a browser, on a phone or in a VR headset. Free and open around the clock while the doors are closed.

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digitised objects
1,154
3D models
111
virtual exhibitions
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3D · Shurjar, a liturgical vestment of a clergyman in the Armenian liturgical tradition · Тк-3338

About the object

360° tours

Walk through the museum’s halls as they were before it closed: panoramas with captions for the display cases.

Exhibition “Sloboda people”

360°

Museum exhibition

Sloboda people

The exhibition tells the story of the people who lived on our land from the earliest times to the early 20th century.

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Virtual exhibitions

Exhibitions made for the screen: objects, texts and archive material that no hall could hold.

All online exhibitions

  • 3D · VR

    Sloboda Ukraine Code · Church Antiquities

    Church Antiquities

    A collection of real church artifacts and antiquities in an interactive 3D exhibition hall, right from your browser — no installation needed.

  • Exhibition “Sloboda Ukraine Code. Magic of Symbols”

    3D · VR

    Sloboda Ukraine Code · Ukrainian embroidery

    Sloboda Ukraine Code. Magic of Symbols

    Digitised 3D models of traditional embroidered clothing of Sloboda Ukraine, the features of their ornaments, and a new way of interacting with museum exhibits.

  • Exhibition “Benediction”

    Online

    Virtual exhibition

    Benediction

    A personal art project by the museum’s chief artist, who publishes under the pseudonym Normanna: a path to oneself through creativity, imagination and a world that inspired a whole generation.

3D collection

111 objects you can rotate, zoom into and look at from every side.

All 111 models

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Video series «Seeing More»

Video series

«Seeing More»

“Seeing More” is a video project of the M. F. Sumtsov Kharkiv Historical Museum: a series of short videos that aim to draw attention to the exhibits and to popularise the museum.

Watch the series

How to view

  • In a browser

    Nothing to install. Tours and 3D work on a computer, tablet or phone; on mobile data a model takes longer to load.

  • In a VR headset

    Free apps for both “Sloboda Ukraine Code” virtual exhibitions are available for Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets; they are installed from a computer via SideQuest. Without a headset the exhibitions open in a browser.

    How to install the app

  • Without sight or a mouse

    Every 3D model has a text description and ordinary photos. A model can be controlled from the keyboard: arrow keys rotate, + and − zoom.

    Accessibility statement

For teachers: tours and models can be used in a lesson — selections by topic of the school curriculum.

Materials for school