Boryslav History and Local Lore Museum, Boryslav

The Boryslav History and Local Lore Museum was founded in 1987 on the initiative of the local local historian Mykola Kryzhanovsky.

It is located in the building of the former department of the NKVD, where victims of repression were shot during the establishment of Soviet power in the region.

The museum's funds include more than 5,000 exhibits. Minerals, flora and fauna of Prykarpattya are presented in the nature department.

The most interesting exhibits of the historical department: fragments of an ancient Rus bracelet and a silver hryvnia, a wooden grain barrel made of solid wood, a fire pump of the end of the 19th century, tools and personal belongings of oil miners, a painting by the German artist Romuald Volkel "Old Boryslav" (1918).

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