Attractions of Kitsman

The city hall building in Kitsman was built in 1890, as evidenced by the date on the weather vane.

The Kitsman town hall is distinguished by its small size and a balcony on a small tower. The city coat of arms is placed on the facade.

The building of the town hall is still used for its intended purpose - it houses the Kitsman City Council.

The Kitsman Historical and Local Lore Museum was established on a non-profit basis in 1969. Since 1982 it has been a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The museum collection has almost three thousand exhibits, presented in four departments. The exposition "Life and Culture of the Kitsman Region from Ancient Times to the Present" presents archaeological monuments of many cultures discovered on the territory of the region, some of the materials tell about the victorious struggle of the local population for Ukrainian statehood.

In the hall "Ethnography of the Region" a collection of embroidered shirts, which the residents wore more than a hundred years ago, attracts attention.

A separate hall is dedicated to the outstanding composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk, a native of the region. Here you can see his personal belongings, stage costume, awards, workbooks, report cards, diaries, self-portraits and portraits of his father Mykhaylo, scripts written by himself, photographs, many exhibits tell about the composer's school years. Part of the exposition became the basis of the Volodymyr Ivasyuk Memorial Museum in Chernivtsi.

The last hall introduces the literary and artistic life of the region. Here is a collection dedicated to outstanding personalities - natives of Bukovyna: writer, composer, conductor, folklorist, teacher and public figure Sydir Vorobkevych; corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences physicist Korniy Tovtyuk; Hero of Ukraine, singer Dmytro Hnatyuk; People's Artist of Ukraine Mariya Mykolaychuk; writer Mykhaylo Ivasyuk, etc.

The museum also has a separate exhibition hall, where works by local craftsmen are periodically exhibited.