Attractions of Krylos

The open-air museum is located on the territory of the ancient settlement, on the first line of the defensive ramparts. The island of folk architecture acquaints visitors with the life of the inhabitants of Prykarpattia in the XVII-XX centuries. On the territory of 4.5 hectares there are traditional dwellings of four ethnographic districts: Pokuttya, Hutsulshchyna, Boykivshchyna and Opillya. Currently, 11 original monuments of folk architecture are collected here, in the interiors of which ancient household items are exhibited.

The Museum of the History of Ancient Halych is located in the former Metropolitan Chambers - an architectural monument of the eighteenth century. After the destruction of ancient Halych by the Tatars in the XIII century. and the transfer of the capital of Galicia to Kholm, then to Lviv, the former prince's child remained the residence of the Galician metropolitans. In particular, there was a summer residence of Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky, with the help of which in 1937 archaeologist J. Pasternak founded the first museum of ancient Halych. Initially, the exposition of finds from excavations in the village of Krylos was located in the chapel of St. Basil. In the 1990s, the exhibition was moved to the restored premises of the Metropolitan Chambers. Here are the tools of the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages, ancient weapons, including the ancient Rus princely sword of the XII century.