Handbag-bag from Shestovytsia

18 April 2024 year to the Day of Monuments of History and Culture in the Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after. VV. Tarnovsky, a museum meeting was held with specialists of the National Research Restoration Center of Ukraine.

The museum has long cooperated with the Restoration Center on rescue, acquisition of an exhibition appearance and restoration of objects from the museum collection.

The employees of the center talked about the painstaking and long process of restoration of the object from the Shestovytsky burial mound. In particular, about the unique and unique "purse bag" of the 10th century. with the image of a griffin, kept from the Museum's collection. The handbag was restored by the team of the research department of the restoration of metal works headed by the head artist-restorer of the highest category Viktor Golub. Its restoration took more than ten years and required considerable effort.

Chernihiv archaeologists discovered a small fanny pack in 2006 year during the excavation of a mound near the village of Shestovytsia. Near this settlement, as a result of archaeological research during the 20th and early 21st centuries. the most Viking burials were found on the territory of Ukraine. The find lay in the ground for about a thousand years. When the restorers took an X-ray, then the picture showed the image of a griffin, engraving.

The general director of the National Research Restoration Center of Ukraine Svitlana Strelnikova was also present at the meeting.

Employees of the Chernihiv Historical Museum. VV. Tarnovsky are sincerely grateful to fellow restorers for their hard work, professional and highly professional work, which saves monuments of national and world importance.