Attractions of Pylypche

The Yakiv Hnizdovsky Ethnographic and Art Museum was opened in 1992 in the village of Pylypche, in the homeland of the world-famous American artist of Ukrainian origin Yakiv Hnizdovsky, whose paintings ("Winter Landscape" and "Sunflower") decorated the office of US President John F. Kennedy in the White House.

Yakiv Hnizdovsky worked in various genres of painting and graphics - portrait, landscape, still life, iconography, everyday genre, bookplate, applied graphics. He painted with oil paints and tempera, various solid dyes, engraved on wooden and metal boards, and sometimes engaged in small-scale sculpture. His legacy includes hundreds of paintings, as well as more than 300 engravings (woodcuts, etchings and linocuts).

The museum is located in the premises of the Pylypche comprehensive school. At first, the museum had a small exhibition area, and later it was expanded and became a museum complex that includes: the ethnographic and art museum of Yakiv Hnizdovsky, where the originals of his works and archival materials from his biography are exhibited; the museum of village history; the museum of children's creativity. Currently, the total area of ​​​​the museum is 160 square meters.