Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

The Kalush town hall was built in Kalush in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, opposite the Saint Valentyne's Church.

The city of Kalush used Magdeburg law since 1549. The first stone town hall existed in the 17th-18th centuries, but its location is unknown.

The current building of the city municipality is built in the style of classicism with elements of modernism, has an L-shaped shape. The main decoration is a low clock tower.

Until 1939, the Kalush magistrate sat here, and during the Soviet times, the district committee of the party moved here. In the early 1970s, the premises were transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Since 2005, the building has been undergoing long-term reconstruction.

The Kalushchyna Ethnographic Museum was created in 1994 at the Higher Vocational School No. 7 of the Kalush city on the initiative of teacher Valeriy Serdyuk.

The exposition presents the ethnographic collections of objects of traditional culture of Boykivshchyna and Prykarpattia collected by students and teachers, in particular, household and artistic objects of the 18th-20th centuries. In the section "Folk crafts and crafts" products of pottery, weaving, and blacksmithing are presented.

The collection of agricultural implements tells about ancient methods of farming and animal husbandry. The interior of a village house of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century is reproduced.

There are many collections of embroidery, folk clothes, artistic products of folk crafts. In the section "Sacred monuments of Boykivshchyna" church antiquities of the 18th-20th centuries are presented.

The Kalushchyna Local Lore Museum is one of the subdivisions of the Communal Institution "Museum and Exhibition Center of the Kalush City Council". 

The Museum and Exhibition Center also includes the Memorial Museum "Kalush Prison", the memorial complex "Kryivka of the Cheremosh", the Franko Family House-Museum and an exhibition hall.

It was opened in 1997 in the building of the former Jewish community, which is an architectural monument of the first half of the 20th century.

The basis of the exposition is the archaeological monuments of Kalushchyna, ancient documents, old church prints, works of fine art, old photographs, materials on the history of bell-making, household items, etc.

An art gallery is located in the same room.

The Monastery of the Fathers of the Order of Saint Basil the Great was founded in Ivano-Frankivsk before the Second World War. The first stone for the construction of the monastery was laid in 1936, and the construction was completed in 1938.

The Church of Christ the King was built according to the plans of the Lviv architect Oleksandr Pezhansky, and the general supervision of the works was carried out by the famous Ukrainian builder Taras Hrytsak. The temple was built in the Byzantine style with five domes like Sophia Cathedral.

In 1946, the monastery was closed by the Soviet authorities, and the church housed an archive.

In 1990, the complex of the monastery of Christ the King was returned to the Basilian Fathers.

The museum-workroom of lizhnykarstvo (blanket-making) and antiquities in Yavoriv was created in their own home by the family of Natalya and Yaroslav Kishchuk.

The museum introduces visitors to the process of making Hutsul woolen lizhnyks (blankets), which is a traditional craft of Yavoriv residents. The owners also make gunis (Hutsul outerwear), woolen caps, tank tops, shoes, and various carpets. You can see an ancient loom, a rare spinning wheel, household items of highlanders.

Visitors are offered master classes on weaving lizhnyks, photo shoots in Hutsul clothes, and an introduction to Hutsul life.

Kolomyia Lyceum named after Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi is located in the former building of the Ursuline sisters' monastery, built in 1907.

In 1892, deputies of the Galician Diet decided to open a Ukrainian gymnasium in Kolomyia. Initially, only the Ukrainian class was created at the Polish gymnasium (the Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk studied there). The public demanded the separation of Ukrainian classes from Polish classes, and this happened in 1900. At the same time, the gymnasium got its own premises (the northern wing of the Polish gymnasium was completed).

In 1939, the Ukrainian gymnasium was closed, and a secondary school was opened in its premises. In 1990, the regional executive committee decided to revive the Kolomyia humanitarian gymnasium. It was placed in a complex of buildings of the monastery of the Ursuline Sisters, where there was a private female gymnasium before the Second World War.

Today it is the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Lyceum in Kolomyia.

Kosiv Bazaar - a traditional Hutsul fair in the city of Kosiv, the largest in Prykarpattya.

Almost all products of Hutsul decorative and applied art are presented here: ceramic dishes, carpets, embroidered clothes, products made of iron, leather, and fur. Souvenir products are offered at wholesale prices.

Previously, the fair was held in the center of Kosiv. Now the market has been moved to the eastern outskirts of the city, to a large shopping area near the Kutsky bridge (Kosiv-Kuty street; 48°18'59''N, 25°6'42''E).

The Great Kosiv Bazaar is open only on Saturdays early in the morning (from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.).

The rest of the time, branded souvenir pavilions of the best Kosiv folk craftsmen are open in the very center of the city, next to the old Kosiv Bazaar.

The Kosiv Museum of Hutsul Region Folk Art and Life presents a rich collection of folk crafts: wood carving, pottery, artistic weaving, embroidery.

The exposition introduces the folk decorative and applied art of the XIX-XX centuries.

Of special artistic value is the collection of works of the Shkryblyak family of carvers from the village of Yavoriv.

The Kosiv Museum of Hutsul Region Folk Art and Life is a branch of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttia Folk Art in Kolomyia.

The private historical and local lore museum in Kosmach was opened in 1999 by a local historian and collector Lyubov Vartsabyuk.

The exhibition in three halls tells about the history of the village of Kosmach, the construction of local churches and prominent residents of Kosmach.

The largest section of the museum is dedicated to the life and work of Patriarch Volodymyr (Vasyl Romanyuk), who served in the local church of Peter and Paul in 1968-1972.

The museum also has large collections of the works of Kosmach embroiderers and pysankarkas, modern Kosmach clothing and weaving products.

The Museum of Local Lore was established in the village Kryvorivnia in 1965 on the basis of a secondary school.

The exposition tells about the history of the Hutsul village, life and way of life of the region's inhabitants.

The museum has more than 100 exhibits.

The palace and park complex in Bilshivtsi was founded in the 19th century by the Kshechunovych family on the site of the old defensive castle of the Kazanovskys.

At the end of the First World War, the manor house was completely destroyed, and in 1927-1929, Kornel Kshechunovych built a new palace in its place in the neo-Renaissance style with elements of classicism. The facade is decorated with a portico with four columns. The park facade with two side towers is especially impressive. A luxurious staircase leads down to the park with a fountain.

Currently, the former palace of the Kshechunovych houses the Bilshivtsi City Hospital.

The Lebedyn mountain lake is located on the territory of the Hutsulshchyna National Park, 5 kilometers northwest of the village of Sheshory.

Located in the mountains at an altitude of 650 meters, surrounded by a beech forest.

The legend tells about how in the waters of Lebedyn Lake, a young man and a girl in love, whose parents were against their marriage, joined forever, like swans.

The area of the Lebedyn protected tract is 45 hectares. Many medicinal plants can be found here.

The Torhovytsia Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych was founded in 1971 on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the satirist writer.

Oleksa Martovych was born in 1871 in the family of a village clerk in the village of Torhovytsia, near Horodenka. He went to school here. He started writing while studying at the Kolomyia Gymnasium. Together with Vasyl Stefanyk and Mark Cheremshyna, Les Martovych was a member of the so-called Pokuttya group of novelists. The high-relief "Pokuttya Trinity" greets visitors in the lobby of the museum.

During his lifetime, he published 27 short stories about peasant life, written in the Pokuttia dialect of the Ukrainian language. Lifetime editions of the writer's works are presented in the exposition.

You can also see a model of the house in which the writer was born, his portrait by the artist Mykola Varennya, some personal belongings, photos, documents. The writer's office is reproduced according to the photo.

In one of the museum halls, the interior of a peasant house of the beginning of the 20th century is recreated with authentic elements of decoration and household items. A bust of the writer is installed in front of the museum.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Les Martovych is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Local Lore Museum.

The Kosiv Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Prykapattya Region is dedicated to the historical events of 1920-1954, when the struggle of the Ukrainian people for independence took place in Ukraine, in particular in Prykapattya.

The exposition covers the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the struggle of civilians against the occupation regimes, repressions against patriots.

The interior of the guerrilla shelter has been recreated.

he Kosiv Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Prykapattya Region is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera.

The Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Pokuttya Region was opened in Zabolotiv in 2007 for the 65th anniversary of the formation of the UPA.

The exhibition is housed in five halls. The exhibits are conventionally divided into two sections. The historical department tells about the armed struggle of the Pokuttya people against the occupation regimes in the 1920s - 1950s. In particular, the reconstruction of the situation of the rebel bunker is presented.

Original documents and photographs illuminate the history of the liberation movement in Pokuttya.

In addition, the museum has a small ethnographic exposition.