Attractions of Derevnia

The Museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych opened in the village of Derevnia in November 2012 in the premises of the village People's House to mark the 201st anniversary of the writer's birth. It became the fifth museum in the Lviv region dedicated to this outstanding Ukrainian cultural figure.

The author of the museum exposition was the famous Ukrainian artist Orest Skop.

The village of Derevnia was for a long time the family parish of the Krushynsky fathers, from whose family Yuliya Krushynska is the wife of Markiyan Shashkevych. It was in Derevnia that the newlyweds got married in 1839 and lived for some time.

The museum presents household items of the Shashkevychs, books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, icons, paintings. The exposition tells about the Krushynsky family, the marriage of Markiyan Shashkevych, the life of the young family.

One of the museum's halls is dedicated to the ethnography of the region - it exhibits ancient folk items that existed in the village at different times, photographs, towels, carpets, etc.

In the future, the museum of Father Markiyan Shashkevych is planned to be moved to an authentic rectory, which has been preserved in the village of Derevnia and is over two hundred years old.