The Henichesk Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1956 as the Museum of Friendship of Peoples on a pro bono basis. In 1959, it was opened as a museum of history and local lore. In 2002, the museum received the status of an independent institution of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. The Henichesk Museum of Local Lore consists of eight exhibition halls, namely the nature of the region, crafts, ancient history, ethnography hall, hall of memory and glory, hall of unity of national cultures and two exhibition halls.

The total fund of the local lore museum amounted to 12,5000 storage units. The main fund has 9,865 storage units, which belongs to the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine. The number of items of the scientific and auxiliary fund is 1,719 storage units. Throughout its existence, the museum has collected rare and unique exhibits, such as ancient and medieval pottery, a stele from the Sarmatian period, archival documents from the period of Nazi occupation of the Kherson region in 1941–1943, part of the bowsprit of a medieval ship (bow decoration in the form of a rook's head), paintings by People's Artist N. Kupriianov, Georgian vases, intarsia and coinage, Tula samovars and cups, a collection of coins, ancient weapons, paintings, southern elephant bones and many other exhibits of interest.

Address: Vidrodzhennia Street, Henichesk city, Kherson region, Ukraine 75500

The city of Henichesk was occupied in the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Currently, the collaborationist authorities are actively using the museum and Ukrainian cultural heritage to promote the ideas of the “Russian world” and spread Kremlin propaganda. Also, in June 2023, it became known that the building of the Henichesk Museum of Local Lore had been renovated and adapted for propaganda purposes.

The collaborationist “authorities” of the occupied territories, the authorities of the Republic of Adygea, the Russian military, the Kherson regional branch of the United Russia party.