Attractions of Chernivtsi region

Khotyn Historical Museum is a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

It is located in the former house of the priest of the Holy Intercession Cathedral.

In five halls there are expositions that cover the history of the region: "Khotyn region - Slavic land", "Khotyn region in the period X-XVII centuries.", "Russian-Turkish war", ethnography of Khotyn region of the late XIX - early XX centuries. and other.

Of particular interest is the model of Khotyn fortress and Cossack jewels.

The city hall building in Kitsman was built in 1890, as evidenced by the date on the weather vane.

The Kitsman town hall is distinguished by its small size and a balcony on a small tower. The city coat of arms is placed on the facade.

The building of the town hall is still used for its intended purpose - it houses the Kitsman City Council.

The Kitsman Historical and Local Lore Museum was established on a non-profit basis in 1969. Since 1982 it has been a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The museum collection has almost three thousand exhibits, presented in four departments. The exposition "Life and Culture of the Kitsman Region from Ancient Times to the Present" presents archaeological monuments of many cultures discovered on the territory of the region, some of the materials tell about the victorious struggle of the local population for Ukrainian statehood.

In the hall "Ethnography of the Region" a collection of embroidered shirts, which the residents wore more than a hundred years ago, attracts attention.

A separate hall is dedicated to the outstanding composer Volodymyr Ivasyuk, a native of the region. Here you can see his personal belongings, stage costume, awards, workbooks, report cards, diaries, self-portraits and portraits of his father Mykhaylo, scripts written by himself, photographs, many exhibits tell about the composer's school years. Part of the exposition became the basis of the Volodymyr Ivasyuk Memorial Museum in Chernivtsi.

The last hall introduces the literary and artistic life of the region. Here is a collection dedicated to outstanding personalities - natives of Bukovyna: writer, composer, conductor, folklorist, teacher and public figure Sydir Vorobkevych; corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences physicist Korniy Tovtyuk; Hero of Ukraine, singer Dmytro Hnatyuk; People's Artist of Ukraine Mariya Mykolaychuk; writer Mykhaylo Ivasyuk, etc.

The museum also has a separate exhibition hall, where works by local craftsmen are periodically exhibited.

The Kobolchyn Pottery Museum was opened in 2008. Its founder was the honored worker of culture Ivan Honchar.

The museum is designed in the form of a pottery estate.

The museum presents about a thousand ceramic products, as well as exhibits that tell about the history of the village of Kobolchyn. A large arsenal of Ukrainian household items of the last century is presented: a large pottery oven, old carpets, pillows, old windows and doors, shutters and benches, as well as the invariable attributes of those times - towels and embroidered cloths.

In the pottery museum, you can get acquainted with the secrets of the pottery craft in practice.

The museum-estate of the leader of the 19th century anti-serf peasant uprisings, Lukyan Kobylytsya, is located on the Krasniy Dil farm near the village of Serhii.

The exposition of the wooden hut in which the "Hutsul king" was born presents ancient Hutsul household items: a wooden table, a bed, a wide bench, a stove, a basin. Documents have been preserved that testify to active resistance to local landowners and authorities - these are petitions and complaints with which Kobylytsya addressed the Austrian parliament. The museum gives an idea of ​​the environment from which the first Hutsul deputy of the Austrian Reichstag from the Vyzhnytsia district, the fearless leader of the peasants, Lukyan Kobylytsya, came.

Other outbuildings have also been preserved on the estate - a cellar, a well, a stable and a storeroom. The pantry preserved ancient tools of labor - a tow, an oiler, a mustard pot, and a millstone.

The massive three-story building of the Main Synagogue is one of the architectural landmarks of the central square of Vyzhnytsia.

It was one of the 11 Jewish sanctuaries that existed in the city during the Austrian rule.

During the First World War, the temple burned down. In the 1960s, the building was reconstructed as a district cultural center. It was here that the artistic career of the famous singer Nazariy Yaremchuk, whose childhood and youth were spent in Vyzhnytsia, began.

Today, the turquoise building of the former synagogue is a city house of folk creativity and leisure.

The Malanka Museum was opened in the city of Vashkivtsi on December 19, 2016 at the city library. In two rooms with a total area of 50 square meters, a wide variety of costumes, in which Bukovyna residents were dressed 50 years ago, are presented.

The museum's exposition includes about 30 costumes of the traditional Vashkivtsi Malanka. Both traditional masks (grandfather, grandmother, gypsy, bear) and modern ones are presented. In particular, the masks of the characters who manage Malanka - "Cossack", "Vulan", "Buk-shandar", as well as masks of the main characters - Malanka and Ukrainian women, are exhibited. In addition, the museum exhibits an exclusive costume-mask with a height of 3 meters - the so-called "Vashkivtsi Bahachka".

In addition, about 200 photographs from the end of the 19th century to the present time, 100 original traditional masks, which are made only in Vashkivtsi, are on display for visitors to view. They were presented by mask masters Vasyl Stolyar, Oleh Voloshchuk and Mykola Marchuk.

All the exhibits of the Malanka museum were provided by the residents of Vashkivtsi, who for many years support the tradition of malanka and are active participants of Pereberiya.

The Malanka museum is most proud of the cymbals and postols that Ivan Mykolaychuk held in his hands and walked in during the filming of the film "White Bird with Black Mark".

The Mamalyha Village History Museum was opened in 1979 in the village House of Culture on the initiative and with the assistance of local historian, history teacher Serhiy Kordunyan. In the 1990s, the village history museum temporarily ceased its activities and resumed its work in 2013 in the premises of a secondary school.

Chronologically, the museum covers the entire history of the region - from ancient times to the present. The museum's exposition consists of the following sections: "Ethnographic", "Local History", "Our Region in Antiquity", "From the History of the Village of Mamalyha", "The Tsarist Period in the History of the Region", "The Village of Mamalyha of the Romanian Period", "They Defended the Motherland", "From the Ashes of Oblivion", "Numismatic Collection. Bonistics", "They are from our village" and others.

The museum has a large collection of archaeological finds, documents, photographs, household items, ethnographic monuments. Also presented are objects of material and spiritual culture, tools of labor, household items, sets of women's and men's clothing, photographs of participants in the First and Second World Wars, a memorial sign to fellow village soldiers, and the formation and development of education, culture, and health care in the village are also shown. A valuable exhibit is a wooden icon from the late 18th century. The decoration of the museum is a model of an ordinary peasant hut covered with reeds.

A small but very attractive one-story palace with a three-tiered tower in Chortoryia is one of the most mysterious sights of Bukovyna. Neither the date of construction nor the name of the first owner is known.

In the official registers, the object is listed as "Manesku Palace" and dates back to the 19th century. According to other sources, the manor was founded in the 18th century by the landowner Dzhurzhuvan, and the last owner was the landowner Rutkivskyi.

Since 1941, the Chortoryia men's psychoneurological boarding house has been housed in the palace.

A two-hundred-year-old tulip tree grows in the manor park.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of the Romanian poet, classic of world literature Mikhay Eminesku was founded in Chernivtsi in 1992 as a branch of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore.

Mikhay Eminesku lived in Chernivtsi with breaks for more than eight years (1858-1866). While studying at the Chernivtsi Higher Gymnasium, Eminescu lived in the house of his literature teacher Aron Pumnul - a Romanian philologist, teacher, writer, cultural figure, one of the founders of the spiritual life of the Romanians of Bukovina.

During the existence of the museum, more than 2,000 original exhibits have been collected: editions of Mikhay Eminesku's works (during his lifetime and contemporary), illustrations to the poet's works made by famous artists of Ukraine and Romania, facsimiles of manuscripts of all his works.

In 2021, the regional state administration, in cooperation with the Consulate General of Romania in Chernivtsi, initiated the reconstruction of the house of the director of the first Chernivtsi gymnasium, Aron Pumnul, which houses the Mikhay Eminesku Literary and Memorial Museum. The exterior of the house, which the residents had previously redeveloped, is intended to be restored based on historical photos.

A small waterfall on the Vyzhenka River and a pool formed by rock washing are a place of Hasidic pilgrimage.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the founder of Hasidism, Izrael Baal Shem Tov, who lived at the foot of Nimchych, built a Jewish mikvah here - a place for ritual ablutions. Every Friday he took baths here.

According to legend, mikveh water has healing properties.

The state enterprise "Putyla Forestry" includes 9 forestry enterprises, including the Seliatyn Forestry, where an Environmental Education Center with a mini-zoo has been created.

The mini-zoo is home to wild animals of the Bukovyna Carpathians - seven deer, three bears, three roe deer, three wild boars, 6 hares, two badgers, a she-wolf, a fox, four peacocks, and a marten.

Next to the enclosures are two ponds with carp, catfish, and walleye.

A monument to the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Frants Yosyf I in Chernivtsi was erected in the square between Myrona Korduby, Bakhrushyna and Dmytra Zahuly streets in 2009 at the initiative of a native of the city, the famous politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

During the reign of Frants Yosyf (1848-1916), when Bukovyna was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Chernivtsi flourished. The city experienced rapid economic growth and a construction boom - the most outstanding architectural monuments were created. In addition, Chernivtsi became the Ukrainian national cultural center - a university was opened, Ukrainian schools appeared, Ukrainian newspapers began to be published, Ukrainian public organizations were active.

The initiators call the installation of a monument to Emperor Frants Yosyf in Chernivtsi a restoration of historical justice.

The sculpture was created by Honored Artist of Ukraine Serhiy Ivanov and sculptor Volodymyr Tsisaryk based on a model of the monument that existed before, delivered from Vienna.

Mount Tsetsyno on the western outskirts of Chernivtsi is the highest point of the Chernivtsi highlands (378 meters).

In the Middle Ages, the Moldavian fortress of Tsetsyno stood on the top of the mountain, probably founded by the Halician princes, and then fortified by Peter I Mushat, the master of the Moldavian principality. It was mentioned in the Old Rus chronicles of 1388-1394 as the Wallachian city of Chechun.

In the second half of the 15th century, the Tsetsyno fortress was destroyed. The ruins of the castle, which survived until the middle of the 20th century, were destroyed in 1961 during the construction of a television tower.

A beech reserve with an area of 430 hectares is located on the slopes of Tsetsyno. The Tsetsynsky landscape park was created here in 1974. There are oaks, sharp-leaved maples, sycamores, hornbeams and other rare plants, as well as "red book" animals: roe deer, wild boars, foxes, martens, squirrels, weasels, ermines.

The Bukovynian Diaspora Museum was founded in Chernivtsi in 1992 on the occasion of the anniversary of Ukraine's Independence.

This is the first museum in Ukraine dedicated to emigration from Bukovyna as a phenomenon that began at the end of the 19th century and took place in four waves throughout the 20th century. The museum is designed to preserve the memory of Bukovynians who left their native land at different times and for different reasons.

The Bukovynian Diaspora Museum existed as a separate institution until 2003 and was reorganized into a department of the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local Lore. The exhibition presents more than four thousand exhibits that reveal various aspects of the life of Bukovynians abroad. Having found a new homeland for themselves, Bukovynians always tried to maintain ties with their native land and perceived themselves as a single national community. The latter is clearly evidenced by exhibits that tell about the life and creative path of world-famous Bukovynians who found themselves in a foreign land – Mykola Bidnyak, Yaroslav Palladius, Vasyl Kurylik, Rosa Auslender, Paul Celan, Georg Drozdovsky, Ervin Charhaff, Oleksandr Vaysman, Temistokle Virsta, Vasyl and Kseniya Kolotylo and many others.