Attractions of Zakarpattia region

The Zatysiansky Museum Complex in the village of Tysobyken near Pyiterfolvo was founded in 1970 on the initiative of the head of the local collective farm Andor Birov.

Complex consists of a historical museum, an open-air ethnographic museum and an art gallery.

The historical exhibition is housed in the former palace of the Fogoroshi Counts, built in 1890 in the classicism style.

Nearby is the family count chapel (now the Greek-Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity) and an open-air museum (skansen) that recreates an old Transcarpathian village. Authentic wooden buildings that are more than a hundred years old are presented here: a house of a wealthy peasant (1882), a poor man's hut (1918), a village school and a teacher's house (1920). Contemporary interiors are reproduced in the houses, and old household items are presented.

The Art Gallery is located in the restored palace of Endre György, built in 1864, in the nearby village of Pyiterfolvo.

The Zoological Museum of Uzhhorod National University was founded in 1946 at the Biological Faculty of UzhNU on the initiative of the first dean of the faculty, Ivan Rohal.

The museum is located in the Neo-Gothic building of the former Basilian monastery from 1912, which also houses the Physical Faculty of UzhNU.

The exposition presents more than 5,000 specimens of insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals from all continents and oceans of the world (total of 150,000 exhibits). In particular, a giant kangaroo from Australia, an African ostrich, an American caiman, an Indian elephant, a Bengal tiger, a Tibetan monkeys, an Antarctic penguin, etc. are presented.

Of considerable interest are the collection of diurnal birds of prey and owls from Transcarpathia and Eastern Slovakia of the Uzhhorod naturalist Oleksandr Grabar and the collection of tropical insects collected at the end of the 19th century by Professor Ishtvan Laudon.

Excursions must be ordered three days in advance.