Attractions of Ivano-Frankivsk region

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.

The memorial museum "Roman Shukhevych Underground Headquarters" in the village of Kniahynychi near Rohatyn is a branch of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera. Opened in 2007 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the UPA Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevych.

In 1946-1947, the underground headquarters of the UPA operated in Kniahynychi. He was located in the former postman's house – in a conspiratorial apartment, which had the code name "Korolenko".

The museum exposition in this building was created on the initiative and based on the memories of the former bodyguard of the UPA commander, political prisoner Lyubomyr Polyuha.

Three museum rooms reproduce the interior of that time: wardrobe, table, chairs, beds, sewing machine, table lamp, dishes. Among Shukhevych's personal belongings, his cap, razor and badge are on display.

Documents, photos and personal belongings of other underground workers are presented. Lyubomyr Polyuha presented the museum with his own shirt, which his wife embroidered for him with herringbone, when the couple was serving time in Soviet correctional labour camps.

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 Museum of the History of Nadvirna Region is located in a building built in the city center in 1939 and where the NKVD-KGB bodies were located.

The exposition occupies 14 rooms and has more than 6,000 exhibits.

In the basements of the museum, the conditions of the pre-trial detention center are recreated. Inscriptions made by residents of the region who were tortured by the NKVD were preserved on the walls of the prison cell.

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 Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ is mentioned in the 16th century as the main religious building of the craft district of ancient Halych (in 1593, the church was officially attached to a pottery workshop).

During the 16th-18th centuries, the church was repeatedly destroyed by the Tatars, after which it was reconstructed and acquired its current appearance. At the same time, a wooden carved iconostasis was made. At the beginning of the 20th century, restoration was carried out with the participation of Father Mykola Vinnytskyi, a well-known Muscovite who was repressed by the Austrian authorities. A monument to him was erected in front of the church.

In recent years, a bell tower has been erected nearby. A model of ancient Halych was built in the open air near the church.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Vorokhta is one of the best examples of Hutsul folk architecture.

It was built according to traditional technologies without a single nail in 1654-1657 in the nearby village of Yablunytsia. The church was moved to its current location in 1780.

Fragments of 19th century wall paintings have been preserved in the interiors.

Nearby is a two-story wooden bell tower, which housed the exposition of the church museum.

In 1979, the church was restored by architects Bohdan Kindzelskyi, Hryhoriy Kruk, and Ivan Mohytych.

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 Museum of Oil Industries of Galicia was opened in 2013 in the village of Pniv near Nadvirna, which is one of the centers of Ukrainian oil production and oil refining.

Industrial oil production in Pryka rpattyabegan in 1771, when oil was extracted en masse from a well in Sloboda-Runhurska in Kolomyia Region.

The Oil Museum is located on the territory of the Training and Course Complex of the Nadvirnanaftogaz Oil and Gas Production Department.

The exposition consists of two parts. Archival materials, photographs, models of oil production facilities are presented in the museum premises. On the museum territory, industrial equipment and models are exhibited in the open air - from the first rigs for drilling and oil production of the 17th century to modern equipment.

A large stone arch railway bridge-viaduct of Austrian times was laid in the valley of the Prut River in Vorokhta in 1895 during the construction of the railway Stanislav (Iavno-Frankivsk) – Yaremche – Vorokhta – Rakhiv.

The bridge is located on a railway bend and in a place where the river has a wide channel, so it had to be made very long - 130 meters. The length of the widest span reaches 65 meters.

It is one of two large arched bridges in Vorokhta (the Yaremche-Verkhovyna highway passes under the second), it is considered one of the longest stone railway bridges in Europe.

Currently, the bridge is not operational - a new bridge has been built nearby.

The OUN-UPA History Museum was opened in 1995 in the premises of the Broshniv-Osada Lyceum. More than 500 exhibits were collected for the museum exhibition by the students and teachers of the lyceum with the participation of veterans of national liberation struggles.

The exposition tells about the history of Broshniv, the activities of the OUN and UPA in this region, the tragic fate of the rebels in exile. Among the original exhibits: a collection of ideological materials of the UPA, the annals "Red viburnum", the insurgent leaflet "What the UPA stands for", embroidery "Prison souvenir of 1946".

A model of the kryivka (hideout) in which the insurgents hid was presented.

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 Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Monastery of Saint Andrew is the youngest in Yaremche.

The monastery complex among the beech forest was built in the tract of Tovsty Dol on the banks of the mountain river Kamyanka. Saint Andrew's Missionary Congregation was founded by the famous Greek Catholic missionary Yaroslav Svyshchuk.

The wooden Peter and Paul Church, built according to the canons of traditional Hutsul architecture, is also a museum of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.

The museum is located on the lower tier of the church. It presents a collection collected by Yaroslav Svyshchuk: icons, portraits, subject paintings, sculpture and mosaic of famous artists of the Ukrainian diaspora - Petro Andrusiv, Edvard Kozak, Omelyan Mazuryk, Mykhaylo Dmytrenko, Yuvenaliy Mokrytsky, Mykola Bidnyak etc., as well as sculptural and iconographic works of Svyshchuk himself.