Kosiv Museum of Folk Art and Life of the Hutsul Region

Address: 55 Nezalezhnosti Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday is a day off.

Entrance fees to the museum: for adults – 40 UAH, for students and pensioners – 25 UAH, for pupils – 20 UAH.

☎ Telephone numbers for information:

• (096) 846 99 84;
• (096) 854 43 19.

Museum of Folk Art from the collection of Mykhailo Strutynskyi

Address: 1A Tykha Street (GPS: 48.32076, 25.10129).

Working days: Tuesday-Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Lunch: from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Day off: Monday.

Ticket prices: entrance to the museum is free (those who wish can make a donation).

☎ Telephone numbers for information:

• (097) 342 07 72;
• (034) 782 46 72;
• (034) 782 21 59;
• (034) 782 24 38

Address: 2, Mickiewicz Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: Monday-Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

☎ Telephone numbers for information:

• (03478) 2 12 60;
• (03478) 2-11-53

Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera

Address: 55 Nezalezhnosti Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: weekdays – from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Saturday – from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday – closed.

The cost of the visit:

• adults – 10 UAH.;
• children – 5 UAH.;
• excursions – 20 UAH.

☎ Phone number for information: (03478) 2 46 72

Museum-manor of Patriarch Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine

Address: 10 Romanyuk Street, Khimchyn village, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

☎ Phone number for information: (03478) 2 73 30

The museum-manor of Patriarch Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine is one of the most important sacred institutions of the Kosiv region, which is a typical peasant house of the 20s of the twentieth century. On 29 September 2002, the museum-manor of the blessed memory of Patriarch Volodymyr (Romanyuk) was inaugurated and consecrated in his homeland in the village of Khimchyn (Dani village), Kosiv district.

The Zdvyzhyn Spiritual and Ecological Centre (SEC) is located on a high mountain in an oak forest near the village of Kobaki, Kosiv district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, at the place where the Mother of God appeared to local peasant Mykola Bukatchuk on 11 October 1934. This contemplation of the Mother of God radically changed the way of life for him and many other people. Mykola erected a cross at the place of the Virgin’s appearance.

As the summers passed, this spiritual monument was destroyed not only by rains, winds, and time… But the cross in the forest was restored every time it was destroyed.

Museum of Sacred Art

Address: 9, Hrushevskoho Avenue, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: Monday-Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m, Sunday from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

☎ Phone number for information: (067) 812 29 24

The Museum of Sacred Art in Kosiv opened its doors to visitors in 2016. This private museum was founded in his own home by the famous Kosiv carver and restorer Taras Strynadyuk. One of the most famous masterpieces of this master is the altarpiece of St Basil the Great, which is located in the Kosiv Greek Catholic Church (on Moskalivka Street).

Museum of the Strynadyuk Family “KOKA”

Address: 48, Hrushevskoho Avenue, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours:

• Monday-Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.;
• Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.;
• Saturday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
• Sunday is a day off.

☎ Telephone numbers for information: (097) 767 07 65; (097) 740 57 43

Address: 26, Hohol Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

The cost of the visit: entrance is free.

Working hours: from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (no weekends).

☎ Phone number for information: (034) 782 01 02

Address: 26, Hohol Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: daily (by agreement).

☎ Phone number for information: (3478) 2 32 34

The Vasyl Strypko Museum of Ceramics was created at the dawn of Ukraine’s independence in 1990. It is located in the private estate of the master in Kosiv. Vasyl Yuriiovych Strypko lives in this house with his wife Olha.

Address: 11, Stefuraka Street, Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

Working hours: without days off.

☎ Phone number for information: (3478) 2-18-04

It took 32 years to assemble the collection that became the basis of this wonderful museum. The result of many years of work was the preservation of incredible jewellery made by folk artists.

Home Museum of Ivan Pavlyk

☎ Phone number for information: +380 (3478) 2-29-34

This museum was founded by the outstanding master of artistic carving Ivan Yuriiovych Pavlyk (1921-1999) in the last years of his life. The museum exhibits include a large number of masterpieces by the master. The real pearl of the museum’s exposition is a female wooden coral made of mahogany, the ornament of which is lined with mother-of-pearl and beads.

In addition to the museum, Ivan Pavlyk’s works are kept in the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in Kosiv. The panicles, candlesticks, paternities, and a frame for the shroud of Jesus Christ made by his talented hands are preserved here.

Workshop by Ivanna Kozak-Dyleta

Ivanna Kozak-Dileta from Kosovo is a master of artistic ceramics, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1995). She was awarded the NUAU Medal ‘For Creative Achievements’. She was born on 7 July 1959 in Kosiv. She graduated from the Kosiv College of Folk Arts and Crafts. She is a good master of the traditional painting techniques for Kosovo ceramics (rituvannya and rozhkovannya), one of the best craftsmen and one of the modern followers of the great dynasty of Kosovo ceramists Sovizdraniuks-Roshchybyuks. For a long time she worked in the ceramic workshop of the Kosiv Regional Organisation of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.

Here, the unique natural beauty is combined with the ethnic, historical and cultural heritage of the Hutsuls. It is a land of originality. A place where traditions, rituals and folk crafts have been preserved. This is where the estate of St Nicholas is located.

The landscapes and panoramas of untouched nature are breathtaking. The park is located in the wooded part of the Pokutsko-Bukovyna Carpathians, where forests are one of the largest and most valuable assets. The virgin and old-growth forests are especially valuable. They are home to deer, roe deer, wild boars, and occasionally brown bears, lynxes, and forest cats.

There is another interesting location in the city centre – the Chobotar Museum.

The museum houses exhibits of military footwear and Hutsul footwear of different years and generations.

A museum of three generations:

• Bohdan Radysh – poetry.
• Myroslav Radysh is an artistic tree.
• Eduard Radish – a collection of vintage clothing and household items.