The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (Ukrainian: Музей покинутих секретів) is a 2009 novel written by Oksana Zabuzhko.
The novel, Zabuzhko's third, is a modern multigenerational saga which covers the years 1940 to 2004, framed as investigations by a journalist, Daryna Hoshchynska, of historical events in western Ukraine including the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and later political changes, ending just before the Orange Revolution.
"[2] The novel describes Ukrainian contemporary history over several decades as the story of several generations from the perspective of women, stretching up to 2003.
The focus is on the journalist and television presenter Daryna Hoshchynska, who investigates the fate of a Ukrainian partisan who is betrayed to the Soviet authorities by her lover.
The story continues to the present day with the start of the Ukrainian national movement and the declaration of independence in late and post-communist Ukraine.