Attractions of Verkhovyna district

The private photo museum "Hutsul Multicolor" was opened in 2022 by Svitlana Opruk, a resident of the village of Verkhnii Yaseniv.

The exhibition is housed in an old Hutsul hut from 1917, which is located on a steep mountain slope above the village.

In the first room, copies of miraculous icons from various monasteries of Western Ukraine are presented.

The exposition of the second room combines an exhibition of beadwork, a collection of Hutsul household items, and a selection of old Hutsul photographs.

The third room-terrace is a photo location where you can take a picture in Hutsul clothing and taste Carpathian tea with a view of the Pysanyi Kamin rock.

Kryvopillya pass is one of the highest passable passes of the Carpathians (1013 meters above sea level).

The P-62 Verkhovyna-Vorokhta highway passes through the Kryvopillia Pass.

From here you can enjoy a picturesque view of Verkhovyna, the Chornohora massif and Mount Hoverla.

Hutsul musician Mykola Illyuk, head of the Hutsul ensemble, opened the museum of Hutsul life and art "In Trembitarya" at his home in Verkhovyna.

Ilyuk's house is located on a mountain in the village of Shveykovo.

The exposition presents traditional Hutsul costumes, household items and over a hundred folk musical instruments. The host conducts tours, telling about the origin of the Hutsuls, their life and crafts, rites and traditions. He plays most of the presented musical instruments.

Offers visitors master classes in playing the famous Hutsul trembit, drumba, cymbals, and bagpipes.

The "Khata-Grazhda" museum was created in Kryvorivnia on the basis of one of the few examples of this typical Hutsul house-fortress, built in 1858.

Residential and commercial buildings with hollow outer walls surround a small courtyard, forming a closed space. Grazhdas served to protect against enemies, wild animals and bad weather.

At the end of the 19th century, the Kryvorivnia Grazhda belonged to the Kharuk family, who were often visited by the writer Ivan Franko and the ethnographer Volodymyr Hnatyuk.

In 1964, this Khata-Grazhda was used during the filming of the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". Since 1984, the house has been empty. In 1993, it was restored and opened as a museum.

Exhibitions of paintings and photographs are held.

Museum "Khata-Grazhda" is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore.

In 1999, a private museum of Hutsul lifestyle, ethnography and musical instruments was opened in his house by Roman Kumlyk, a musician and collector from Verkhovyna.

He collected exhibits for the museum for 30 years. These are folk clothes made of linen and leather, and painted clay plates, and Hutsul hatchets-bartka, and money signs of different times, and many other ancient things and objects of folk life.

The collection of folk musical instruments is the most diverse: violins, trembits, cymbals, drumbas, kobzas. The special pride of the collection is the Hutsul bagpipe - Duda.

Previously, tours were conducted by the owner of the museum himself, accompanying the story about each instrument with the performance of folk melodies and songs. After the musician's death, his daughter Natalya receives guests.

A visit to the Roman Kumlyk Museum of Musical Instruments must be arranged in advance.

The wooden Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Kryvorivnia was founded in 1719, and was rebuilt in its present form in 1818. Tempera paintings of the 19th century have been preserved.

The Church is considered one of the best examples of the Hutsul school of folk architecture. There is a legend according to which it was in this church that Oleksa Dovbush, the people's avenger and leader of the Carpathian opryshkas, met and fell in love with the girl Dzvinka, who later betrayed him.

Thanks to the efforts of the abbot of the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin, Ivan Rybaruk, the church has been restored to its authentic appearance - now, as before, it is covered with shingles, not tin, like most of the present-day Carpathian churches.

The memorial museum of the Hutsul writer, folk philosopher, poet and artist Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit has been open in her house in Kryvorivnia since 2005 on public grounds.

The creative output of the mystic is about a thousand works, including 46 handwritten or printed books in a single copy, which the author illustrated and bound with her own hands, as well as several dozen small books.

The books "Heavenly Throne from the Foot of the Earth", "Prayers in Glory of the Holy Baptism of Ukraine-Rus" are devoted to spiritual reflections.

The creative heritage of Plytka-Horytsvit includes the fantasy-adventure novel "Indian Charms: Adventures of the Hutsuls in India". In addition, she wrote poems in the Hutsul dialect, painted pictures, was engaged in photography, and conducted ethnographic research.

Even during his lifetime, the house of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit resembled a museum, it was visited by many Ukrainian scholars. Since 2022, the memorial part of the Kryvorivnia Museum of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit has been housed in creative personality house. The authentic interior with cabinets filled with handwritten books has been preserved. Her paintings, photographs, documentary information about her life and work are presented.

Most of the exposition is located in the new museum premises in the center of Kryvorivnia.

Memorial Museum of the Hutsul writer, poetess, artist and folk philosopher Paraska Plytky-Horytsvit in Kryvorivnia was founded by the Verkhovyna Village Council in 2021.

It includes the memorial house-museum of Plytka-Horytsvit, created in the artist's apartment in the hamlet of Hrashparivka in 2005. The main exposition of the artist's works, opened in 2022, is located in the building of the former Kryvorivnia village council. The exhibition presents works of folk naive art of the writer and artist, who is called "Homer of Hutsul".

Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit's literary work combines under the title "Gift to the Native Land" 46 large handwritten and typewritten books of 500 pages each, as well as dozens of small books with her illustrations and homemade covers.

The rock of Pysanyi Kamin (Written Stone) is a famous monument of nature, history and culture. Huge blocks of sandstone, up to 20 meters high, form a flat platform that offers a stunning view of the surrounding mountains.

The Pysanyi Kamin is an ancient pagan sanctuary where a sacred fire burned in ancient times. Many drawings (petroglyphs) and inscriptions remained on the surface of the rock over the millennia, which is where the name of the natural monument comes from.

Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, and Mykhaylo Kotsyubynskyi often visited here.

The "Ternoshorska Lada" rock in the Ternoshory tract north of the village of Bukovets, on the outskirts of the village of Snidavka, is better known as "Dovbush's Head".

The forest reserve "TractTernoshory" has the form of an elongated mountain slope with a total area of ​​10 hectares. It is a chain of rocky outcrops of sandstone along the mountain river Bezulka Druha. Individual remains reach a height of 40 meters.

Local residents traditionally call the most bizarre rock the name of the legendary national avenger Oleksa Dovbush. Some researchers believe that the rock has an artificial origin and is an ancient sanctuary up to 40 thousand years old.

The rock was named "Ternoshorska Lada" because of its similarity with the widespread Paleolithic figurines of the female progenitor deity. The stone image of the goddess is 10.4 meters high, 2.4 meters of which is the head. The total weight reaches 100 tons.

The house-museum of the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" in the Verkhovyna village of Hlifa was opened in 2000 in the house where the director of the film Serhiy Paradzhanov lived in 1963-1964 during the filming.

Here, visitors can watch the film and get acquainted with the history of the creation of the picture.

The following expositions are active: life and work of outstanding people, ethnography and everyday life, historical and architectural heritage.

The Hutsul Magic Museum is located in one of the recreation complexes on the outskirts of Verkhovyna, which is considered the informal capital of the Hutsul Region.

Its purpose is to preserve the memory of the famous Carpathian healers and seers, who are called Molfars here.

The museum presents items used by Molfar magicians and which tell about ancient Hutsul magic.

The Hutsul Magic Museum also hosts workshops on making original wooden teaspoons, spinning wool threads, and mirror calligraphy.

The private museum "Galeria of Hutsul Traditions and Rites" was created in Verkhovyna by local historian Pavla Rashkovska.

A special feature of the museum is the interactive form of familiarizing visitors with Hutsul traditions and rituals. The hostess of the museum conducts tours in the form of a conversation with visitors at a table with Carpathian tea and pastries.

The exposition presents a large number of Hutsul embroidery and other elements of folk clothing, which visitors can try on. The excursion is complemented by master classes on tying a scarf and playing the drum.

Upon request, you can organize a dinner with traditional Hutsul dishes and tinctures on Carpathian herbs in the "Galeria".

The hostess of the museum also conducts author's tours of Verkhovyna.

The Ethnographic Museum "Vyshyvanka" in Iltsi near Verkhovyna is also known as the Manor Museum "U Halynky Verkhovyky".

The museum of traditional Hutsul clothes and embroidered products was created in her own house by the Verkhovyna poet and folklorist Halyna Yacentyuk, better known by the pseudonym Halynka Verkhovynka.

The exposition presents more than 500 authentic Hutsul household items, the age of which in some places exceeds a hundred years. Among the museum exhibits are looms, woven Hutsul beds, carpets, many embroidered towels and more than 40 embroidered women from all over the Hutsul region. Of particular value are a Hutsul bartka (hatchet) over 140 years old, a woman's handkerchief, which is about 120 years old, a 200-year-old cup and other antiquities.

The hostess greets the guests with her own poems and songs, personally conducts tours and workshops on tying a peremitka - an ancient Hutsul women's headdress.

Cheese factory-museum "Khata-Staya" was opened in Verkhovyna in 2014. The herd is a traditional element of the estate of Hutsul shepherds, where budz cheese is made from sheep's milk.

The real hundred-year-old Hutsul house was moved by the owners from a remote village. The oldest part of the building is a room with a stove, where embroidered shirts and towels, dishes (plates, jars), carpets, etc. are collected. Here, the hosts prepare meals in the oven.

The second room "Hutsul Svitlytsia" is intended for holding master classes and tastings.

But first, visitors are offered to take part in the process of making budza in a herd, where a cauldron of milk is placed over an open hearth. After that, a tasting is held.

You can also learn to cook Hutsul dishes or take a weaving lesson here.