Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Museum of Local Lore was established in the village in 1965 on the basis of a secondary school. The exposition tells about the history of the Hutsul village, life and way of life of the region's inhabitants. The museum has more than 100 exhibits.

The museum-residence of the Shukhevych family was inaugurated in 2019 in the village of Tyshkivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk region, where Father Osyp Shukhevych, the great-grandfather of UPA Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevych, lived most of his life. Residential and working premises in which members of the Shukhevych family lived and worked were restored in the house. The exhibition presents their personal belongings, photographs, documents, as well as the family tree. The Museum of the Shukhevych Family is a department of the National Museum of Folk Art of the Hutsul Region and the Pokuttya named after Josaphat Kobrynsky.

The house-museum of the famous historian and politician of the Ukrainian People's Republic Mykhailo Hrushevsky was opened on the place where at the beginning of the XX century. he bought the estate from the local landowner Przebilowski. Here the future president of Ukraine has repeatedly been on vacation. The villa burned down in 1917, but in 2003 it was recreated according to surviving eyewitness drawings and memoirs. The museum presents biographical documents and photographs, ethnographic collection, household items of the early XX century.

Mykhailo Strutynsky Museum of Folk Art occupies 2 large halls of the Kosiv School of Arts, where he taught for 30 years. From 1961 he collected samples of Ukrainian embroideries, household items of the Hutsul region, works of art. The exhibition presents various types of folk art of Podillya, Bukovyna, Hutsul, Pokuttya, Boykivshchyna and Opillya: ancient icons of the XVIII-XIX centuries, objects of sacred art, embroidery, ceramics, folk clothing and more. The art collection includes works by masters from Kalush, Dolyna, Nadvirna, Rozhnyatov, Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk. A separate exposition in four halls is dedicated to the work of the artist Gennady Malyavsky.

The Museum of the History of Nadvirna is located in a building built in the center of Nadvirna in 1939 and which housed the NKVD-KGB. The exposition occupies 14 rooms and has more than 6 thousand exhibits. The situation in the pre-trial detention center is recreated in the basement of the museum. On the walls of the prison cell there are inscriptions made by the inhabitants of the region, who were tortured in the NKVD.

The Oleksa Dovbush Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk was established in 1995 on the basis of the private collection of the famous historian V. Grabovetsky, who for 50 years studied the Carpathian insurrectionary movement of the Opryshki of the 16th – 19th centuries. and the life of the legendary hero Oleksa Dovbush, a noble robber and national avenger who fought for the liberation of the enslaved peasantry. The small museum exposition consists mainly of documents and paintings, as well as some ethnographic materials. The most interesting exhibit is the legendary ax of Dovbush, which was kept for two centuries by the descendants of witnesses to the death of a robber in the village of Kosmach.

A literary-memorial museum of the Hutsul writer, folk philosopher, poetess and artist Paraska Plytky-Horytsvit has been opened in her house in Kryvyi Rih. Author of more than 1,000 manuscripts, she illustrated and bound them herself. The books "Heavenly Throne from the Foot of the Earth", "Prayers for the Glory of the Holy Baptism of Russia-Ukraine" are dedicated to spiritual reflections. Goretsvit's creative heritage also includes the fantasy-adventure novel "Indian Flirtations: The Adventures of Hutsuls in India". Even during her life, her house resembled a museum, which was visited by many Ukrainian scholars. The Public Museum was opened in 2005. In a small space - cabinets filled with manuscripts, paintings and other works.

The Oleksa Dovbush Museum in Pechenizhyn, the birthplace of the legendary leader of the Opryshki, was established in 1971. Since 2004, the exposition has been housed in an adapted room near St. Michael's Church. The museum covers the history of the village from ancient times to the present day. There are many household items, tools, folk clothing. The main section is devoted to Oleksiy Dovbush, a native of Pechenizhyn, a robber and people's avenger, the most famous leader of the opryshki insurgent movement in the Carpathians of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

The Prykarpattia Museum of Arts in Ivano-Frankivsk is the largest treasury of sacred, fine and decorative art of Ivano-Frankivsk region, whose collection includes more than 15 thousand works of art. The institution opened in 1980 as the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum. It has since been housed in a Roman Catholic church. The Collegiate (Parish) Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saints Andrew and Stanislav is an architectural monument of national importance, one of the most valuable and ancient architectural and spiritual monuments of Ivano-Frankivsk. Built in 1672-1703 by French architects Francois Corassini and Carol Benoit to order the city's founders Andrzej Potocki as the ancestral tomb of this magnate dynasty (Potocki's coat of arms "Pilawa" is located on the second floor on the east wall in front of the buttresses). The three-nave basilica with a transept is made in the Baroque style with elements of the Renaissance. The interiors of the church have preserved frescoes by Erasmus Fabianski, which in Soviet times determined his fate to become an art museum. Now the exhibition presents samples of Galician iconography and Baroque sculpture, the works of classics of Western Ukrainian painting: Kornyl Ustyanovych, Ivan Trush, Yaroslav Pstrak, Julian Pankevych, Oleksa Novakivsky, Osyp Sorokhtey, Olena Kulchytska, as well as Polish works of the III century. The most valuable part of the collection are considered to be six sculptures by the outstanding Ukrainian sculptor Johann Georg Pinzel.

The world's only pysanka museum presents a unique collection of traditional Ukrainian miniature paintings on Easter eggs. The museum building is made in the form of a huge Easter egg 13 m high (2000). The collection includes 10,000 works representing the traditions of Easter painting in all regions of the country. Works by masters from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Western Europe and America are also presented. Traditionally, the first persons of the state who visit the museum leave their autographs on Easter eggs. There are master classes on Easter painting. The souvenir shop offers a wide selection of original handmade Easter eggs, including an ostrich egg.

The private museum of Hutsul life, ethnography and musical instruments was opened in 1999 by Roman Kumlyk, a musician and collector from Verkhovyna. He has been collecting exhibits for the museum for 30 years. These are folk clothes made of flax and leather, and painted clay plates, and Hutsul hatchets, and banknotes of different times, and many other antiques and household items. The collection of folk musical instruments differs in the greatest variety: violins, trembitas, cymbals, drums, kobzas. A special pride of the collection is the Hutsul bagpipe - bagpipe. Previously, the tours were conducted by the owner of the museum, accompanying the story of each instrument with the performance of folk melodies and songs. After the musician's death, his daughter Natalia receives guests. Visits to the museum must be arranged in advance.

The Stepan Bandera Historical and Memorial Museum was opened in the village where the ideologue of the Ukrainian national movement was born in 1909. The Bandera family lived here from 1906 to 1933. The exposition reveals the environment in which Stepan Bandera grew up and was educated, illustrates the life and work of the OUN leader. Personal belongings, documents, photos are presented. The collection of Ukrainian banknotes of the XX century is exhibited.

The V. Stripko Family Museum of Ceramics is located in the house where the Honored Master of Folk Art lives with his family. The exhibition presents the author's works of a ceramist with traditional Kosovo ornaments. By arrangement with the owner, you can visit his workshop, sit in a potter's wheel, make your own ceramic souvenir.