Kolomyia

The world's only museum of Easter egg painting "Pysanka" presents in Kolomyia a unique collection of traditional Ukrainian miniature painting on Easter eggs.

Is a branch of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art in Kolomyia.

The museum building is made in the form of a huge Easter egg 13 m high (2000). The collection includes 10,000 works representing the traditions of Easter painting in all regions of the country. Works by masters from Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Western Europe and America are also presented. Traditionally, the first persons of the state who visit the museum leave their autographs on Easter eggs.

There are master classes on Easter painting.

A wide selection of original handmade Easter eggs, including an ostrich egg, is presented in the souvenir shop of the Easter egg painting museum "Pysanka".

The building of the Kolomyia City Hall is located in the corner of the market square, facing away from other buildings. The 33-meter-high clock tower of the city hall dominates the low-rise buildings of the central part of the city.

The three-story building of the city magistrate of Kolomyia was built in 1877 on the site of the burned down wooden town hall. Made in the neo-renaissance style. The tower bears the coat of arms of the city and chimes with three dials. In 1880, Ivan Franko spent several hours under arrest in the premises of the city hall, who was detained by the gendarmerie post for violating the passport regime.

As in the old days, the premises are now occupied by the city government - the Kolomyia City Council is located here.

National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttya Folk Art named after Yosaphat Kobrynskyi is located in the premises of the former People's House, built in 1902 at the expense of the Ukrainian community of the Kolomyia.

The Viennese Neo-Renaissance building was designed by local architects who studied in Krakow.

The creation of the People's House with a theater and museum in 1880 was initiated by the local priest Yosaphat Kobrynsky, who played an important role in the formation of Ukrainian national identity in Pokuttya.

The museum was opened in 1926 by the efforts of his nephew Volodymyr Kobrynskyi, having survived the difficult Polish period, the German occupation, Soviet repression and post-perestroika devastation.

Now the collection includes 50,000 exhibits representing all kinds of traditional folk art of Hutsuls and inhabitants of Pokuttya: wood carving, blacksmithing, pottery, weaving, embroidery, etc. Widely presented samples of traditional clothing of mountaineers, Hutsul jewelry made of non-ferrous and precious metals, weapons opryshki and others.

There is a permanent exhibition of tapestries by Mykhaylo Bilas.

Branches of the National Museum of Hutsulshchyna & Pokuttia Folk Art are the Museum of Easter Painting Museum "Pysanka" in Kolomyia, the Kosiv Museum of Folk Art and Life of Hutsul Region, the Carpathian Region Ethnography and Ecology Museum in Yaremche.

The Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Saint Archangel Michael was built in Kolomyia in 1855 on the site of an ancient Dominican monastery and a holy spring.

A bell tower was built in 1871. Since that time, the appearance of the "Ruska Church" (Rus, Ruthenian, that is, Ukrainian) has practically not changed.

The authors of the original iconostasis and images were the famous Ukrainian artist Kornylo Ustiyanovych and the Hungarian artist Miklosh. Interior paintings were done by local artist Valerian Krytsinsky.

Several ecclesiastical brotherhoods were active at the temple of Archangel Michael.

During the Soviet rule, Saint Michael's Church was handed over to the Orthodox community of Kolomyia, but in 1990 it was returned to the Greek Catholics. The restoration was completed in 1996.

Across the road from the back side of the cathedral, a life-giving spring flows, which has preserved the ancient name "Klyashtor" (monastery). Its water is considered healing. Every year on Epiphany, the spring is consecrated.

Kolomyia Academic Regional Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Ivan Ozarkevych bears the name of the founder of the first Ukrainian drama theater in Galicia.

The fashion for theaters came here with the transition of the region under Austrian rule. In 1848, the chairman of the Kolomyia council Vereshchynskyi, burgomaster Drymalin and local priest Ozarkevych initiated the creation of a Ukrainian amateur theater. It lasted three years.

After a short break, the theater was revived in 1865 as a traveling professional troupe "Ruskyi People's Theater". Since 1939, the theater has acquired state status.