Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk

The constructivist building of the town hall on Sq. The market is the most famous symbol of Ivano-Frankivsk. At the time of construction in 1932, it was the tallest building in the city (49.5 m). The first wooden town hall on this site was built shortly after the founding of the city in the XVII century, but then it was repeatedly rebuilt. The most interesting from an architectural point of view was the town hall of Austrian times, which existed in 1871-1915. In its current form, the town hall was built in the interwar period. Monolithic reinforced concrete walls could not be blown up by the German occupiers before the retreat in 1944. In April 1990, the national Ukrainian flag was raised for the first time over the building of Ivano-Frankivsk City Hall. Since Soviet times, the building houses several exhibits of the Museum of Local Lore: nature, history, folk art, archeology. There are rich collections of weapons and books, as well as antique furniture. In total - 120 thousand subjects. An interesting exhibit is a model of the old Stanislavov of the Potocki era. Numismatist meetings are held in the lobby every Sunday.

The private museum of family professions was created by journalist Roman Fabryka. The exposition tells about 150 different professions that the collector's family has been engaged in for the last 200 years. Among them were beekeepers, architects, blacksmiths, doctors, builders, geologists, miners, musicians, agronomists, zootechnicians, teachers, gardeners and others. Various professional tools, devices, mechanisms and devices are presented - from a plow to a computer.

Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera is housed in a two-storey Art Nouveau building near the center of Ivano-Frankivsk. The museum presents documents and material covering the period from XI to XX centuries. and which tell about the struggle of the inhabitants of Prykarpattia for the independence of Ukraine. In particular, there are documents that cover the struggle against the Soviet regime of the Legion of Sich Riflemen, the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, the OUN and the insurgent army. The exposition dedicated to political prisoners is represented by a map of the Gulag camps and household items of prisoners. A memorial complex "Demyaniv Laz" was built on the site of the execution of the victims of Stalin's terror.

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.

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.