Attractions of Kosmach

The Museum of Carpathian loggers-butynars is part of the "Butynar" eco-mansion, which opened in Kosmach in 2021.

At the heart of the open-air museum exposition (skansen) is a reproduced wooden hut of butynars, in which they lived while working in the mountains. In the hut you can see working tools and household items of loggers: saws, axes, wooden utensils, etc.

On the porch of the Hutsul hut, there is an exhibition of miniatures, which demonstrate the daily life of butynars. Another exhibit of the museum complex is a tavern.

In the yard - an ancient space carriage and wooden sculptures of mythical creatures from Hutsul folklore. Samples of Carpathian wood, old maps, and other tourist attractions of Kosmach are displayed at the stands.

The estate complex includes a rest house above the pond.

The wooden church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Kosmach was built in 1904.

At first, it held Greek Catholic services, but after the 1946 cathedral, it became a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church, and in the early 1990s it transferred to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.

In 1965-1770, Volodymyr Romanyuk, the future patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, served as a priest in the Peter and Paul Church in Kosmach.

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 private museum of the Opryshky movement history in Kosmach was created in 1988 by local historian and folk craftsman Mykhaylo Yusypchuk-Didyshyn.

He moved the old Hutsul hut of the Dzvinchuk family to his residence, near which, according to legend, in 1745, the leader of the Opryshky, Oleksa Dovbush, died at the hands of a traitor.

The exhibition presents household items, weapons from the time of the Opryshky movement and rare items: bartki, axes, keptars, cheres and much more. One of the most interesting exhibits is an ancient gun with which, according to legend, Oleksa Dovbush was shot.

The museum also has unusual sculptures made of wood and stone, which are created by the owner of the museum.

The wooden church of Saint Paraskeva with a bell tower was built in the center of the village of Kosmach in 1753.

In the early 1960s, the church was closed by the Soviet authorities. At the same time, some of the icons from the church iconostasis were taken to Kyiv for the filming of Serhiy Paradzhanov's film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". After the filming, the icons were transferred for storage to the Arts of Prykarpattya Museum in Ivano-Frankivsk, which saved them from destruction by the fire that destroyed the church of Saint Paraskeva in 1983.

The bell tower, damaged by the fire, was saved and restored.

The Sheep Breeding Museum in Kosmach was opened in 2013 on the territory of the "Kosmatska Pysanka" hotel complex. The current exhibition is housed in a Staya hut (dairy), which consists of a production room with tools and a living apartment, where the household items of sheep herders are presented.

The excursion visually introduces visitors to the work of Carpathian shepherds, the process of milk processing and the technology of making traditional polonyna cheeses.

The museum also holds workshops on wool processing, starting with sheep shearing and ending with the production of woolen products.