Detailed description of the museum of the State Institute of PDM in Kosiv

The educational institution where this museum is located has a long history and has played a major role in the development of traditional folk crafts in Kosiv. Its history dates back to 1882, when the Weaving Society founded the Weaving School, which was located in the premises of the current dormitory of the Institute. Later, the school became a college. Within these walls, first-class craftsmen were trained in such fields as artistic wood carving and carpentry, decorative weaving and carpet weaving, artistic embroidery, cutting and modelling.

In 1936, the then director of the Kosiv Art and Industrial School, Oleksii Hryhorovych Solomchenko (1920-2002), founded a museum at the school. Nowadays, the museum’s collection includes more than 3,500 exhibits. Among them are masterpieces of Hutsul folk art, Hutsul tiles, samples of weaving and embroidery, ceramics, metal, leather and wood products, as well as graduation works of the institute’s students.

The museum’s exhibits are divided into three funds:

1. Works of Hutsul folk art of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
2. Masterpieces by famous Kosiv region masters of the second half of the twentieth century.
3. Diploma theses of the students of the educational institution in 1975-2009.