The exposition of the Chernobyl Museum tells about the largest catastrophe in the history of nuclear energy - the accident at the fourth power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986. The museum has collected about 7,000 exhibits - these are declassified documents, maps, photographs, objects of ethnic culture, personal belongings of the participants in the liquidation of the accident.

The opening of the Chernobyl Museum took place on April 26, 1992, and was timed to coincide with the 5th anniversary of the accident. The exposition of the museum in the modern volume did not appear immediately, but was gradually collected due to the fact that information about the accident, its causes and consequences was classified, and the participants in the event could not tell the truth. Much of what is presented in the museum was published for the first time - documents, maps marked "Secret", photographs.
Above the entrance to the museum, visitors are greeted with the words "Est dolendi modus, non est timendi" (Sorrow has a limit, but anxiety has no limit). Further, visitors see a barrier with alarming flashing lights, it opens the entrance to the Chernobyl road. The symbolic Chernobyl road is a staircase leading to the main hall of the museum, along which road signs hang over the heads of visitors with the names of 76 cities and villages of Ukraine from the resettlement zone, which have been wiped off the face of the earth by radiation.
From the Chernobyl road, visitors enter the first hall of the exposition, the floor in which is made in the form of a slab of biological protection of the main reactor hall. In the center of the hall there is an iconostasis, fragments of which were brought by the museum's researchers from the Resurrection Church located in the Exclusion Zone. Under the cover of the iconostasis, instead of a font, a Polissya boat sways - a symbol of Noah's Ark, and in it are children's toys left by museum visitors. Next to the iconostasis are 3 figures of liquidators in protective suits and respirators. Two angels spread their wings over the iconostasis: white and black, good and evil. Under the wings of a white angel, as if under his protection - portraits of children born after the disaster, on the wings of a black one - photographs from the latest history of the last 70 years. The ceiling of the hall is made in the form of a symbolic map of the world, on which nuclear power plants located on all continents of the Earth flash with alarm lights. On the walls of the hall there is an exhibition of social posters dedicated to nuclear issues.
In the museum you can watch unique video materials about the disaster and its consequences, see the operating model of the Chernobyl power unit, the working three-phase diorama "Chernobyl nuclear power plant before, during and after the accident" - it shows how the explosion took place, the destruction of the nuclear power plant as a result, and the construction of a sarcophagus over the destroyed block.

The exposition of the museum halls tells about the heroic and selfless work of people of many professions - civilian and military specialists in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. In 1998, an electronic book in memory of the participants in the liquidation of the accident appeared in the museum with more than 5 thousand names of the liquidators.

Over the years of its existence, the Chernobyl Museum has been visited by representatives of more than 80 countries of the world. Among them are the Presidents of our and other countries, the UN Mission headed by Secretary General Kofi Annan, OSCE President Adrian Severin and others.