Attractions of Hrushka

The ethnomuseum "Magic Hut" in the village of Hrushka near Kamyanets-Podilskyi is a small skansen (open-air museum) that introduces visitors to the traditional Ukrainian culture of Southern Podillya.

The hundred-year-old house in Hrushka was purchased in 2022 by the artist Adriana Viter in order to organize an ethnographic museum exposition. The house was built using the traditional Podillya keeled method - from clay and wood. A team of craftsmen restored and whitewashed the house, painted it with Podillya ornaments.

The exhibition is devoted to the cultural heritage of the villages flooded as a result of the construction of the Dniester HPP. The rooms feature some traditional crafts inherent in Dniester culture: pottery, herbalism, painting.

Opposite the "Magic Hut" museum is the 700-year-old well "Living Water" above the source of healing water.

The estate house of the Tokarzhevsky-Karashevychs family in the village of Hrushka was built at the end of the 19th century. The two-story manor palace with small towers and a side balustrade is located in the old park at the entrance to the village from Kamyanets-Podilskyi.

The owner of the estate in Hrushka at the beginning of the 20th century was the Ukrainian political and diplomatic figure, historian, honorary knight of the Order of Malta, Yan Tokarzhevskyi-Karashevych. During the First World War, he was the head of the Hrushka Volost Committee for Aid to Military Families, the chief controller of the Podillya Zemstvo Committee for Aid to the Wounded. In 1917-1919, he served as an adviser to the Ukrainian embassy in Vienna, then worked in the UNR government in exile.

During the Soviet rule, the palace of the Tokarzhevsky-Karashevychs was used as the premises of the village council and the board of the local collective farm. Currently, part of the premises is occupied by the Hrushka Starostat of the Staroushytska hromada and post office. In other premises, a museum space with a gallery of antiquities, an exhibition hall and a photo area was arranged.