Denysiv

The Denysiv Museum of Local Lore was opened in the village of Denysiv in 1967 on the initiative of the writer and prominent public figure Ivanna Blazhkevych, who donated a large number of folk embroideries, household items, paintings and a collection of ancient coins to the museum.

From the beginning, the exhibition was located in the building of the Denysiv School. In 1984, the museum was moved to the house of the prominent musical and cultural and public figure of Galicia, Father Yosyp Vitoshynsky.

In 1989, the Denysiv Museum of Local Lore was granted the status of a folk museum, and in 1993 - a state museum.

Over seven thousand exhibits of the museum are located in nine exhibition halls. These are objects of decorative and applied art, valuable documents, rare books and manuscripts, a collection of numismatics, including Ukrainian jubilee and commemorative coins, old and valuable photographs, a considerable number of tangible objects, works of fine art, archaeological finds, technical equipment, etc.

All of them are thematically divided into separate expositions: "For the Cossack family - no translation", "Interior of a peasant hut of the late 19th century", "The First World War", "Ukrainian Sich Riflemen", "Ukrainian People's Republic", "Activities of the OUN-UPA", "The Second World War", "Diorama: Ukraine rebelled on June 30, 1941", "UGD UNA", "Repressed and rehabilitated", "Literary and artistic Denysiv", "Post-war decades: the establishment of a collective farm, the evacuation of people from Lemko, Kholm, Posyannya, Polyashsha", "Education. Culture", "Political parties and cultural and public organizations", "Our glorious diaspora".

The local history museum has its branch - the museum-house of the writer Ivanna Blazhkevych.

In 2002, the Denysiv Museum of Local Lore was recognized as the best rural museum in the Ternopil region.

The Ivanna Blazhkevych Memorial Museum-House was created on a non-profit basis in the village of Denysiv in the writer's native estate in 1986 at the initiative of the Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore and with the consent of her relatives. Ivanna Blazhkevych's descendants still live in this house, but two rooms and a porch were given over to the museum for exhibition.

The first room, in which the writer spent the last years of her life, contains her personal belongings, antique furniture, a book collection, paintings and photographs. In the boxes are the writer's letters, manuscripts of memoirs, works, speeches, articles, photographs. The room also has stands on which the writer's works published during her lifetime and after her death are exhibited.

In the second room is a portrait of Ivanna Blazhkevych and other paintings, books, souvenirs donated personally by the writer, as well as to the museum.

In 1997, the museum received the status of "People's Museum". A monument to the poetess is erected in the garden.

The memorial museum-estate of the writer Ivanna Blazhkevych is a branch of the Denysiv Museum of Local Lore.