Kosiv painted ceramics, which is included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Heritage and is distinguished by unique plots and ornaments made by Kosiv masters, is a special case in point.

Therefore, in these and other Kosiv museums and expositions, you will be able to plunge into the colours of Hutsul culture, learn many interesting facts and touch the warmth of the hands of the masters of folk art, which they put into their works. The best works of generations of Kosiv region artists are not only a window into the past, but also an inexhaustible source of knowledge and inspiration for everyone who visits this charming city in the heart of the Carpathian region.

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Museums in Kosiv

A museum where history is combined with modern technologies for presenting exhibits. There is an Interactive Hall of Kosiv Ceramics with interesting game content and stylish design.

In general, the museum exposition presents the past of Kosiv region as a centre of folk crafts: weaving, embroidery, artistic processing of wood, leather and metal. The museum’s collection includes over 6,000 items.

The institution is one of the branches of the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsul and Pokuttya. It was founded in 1969 on the basis of the private collection of the collectors’ spouses, Yevhen and Zoia Sahaidachnyi.

Authentic costumes from local villages, household items and products of Hutsul craftsmen from the nineteenth century to the present day are exhibited in 4 spacious halls.

The museum has an exhibition hall, where exhibitions of various themes change every month.

This museum is a real paradise for lovers of Hutsul antiquities. It is located in the premises of the local music school. It opened its doors to visitors relatively recently – in 2007. It was in that year that Mykhailo Strutynskyi, a teacher at the Kosiv Music School, decided to present his collection of folk art objects to the community. He had been persistently collecting all these scrubs all his life, starting back in 1961.

The educational institution where this museum is located has a long history and has played a major role in the development of traditional 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.

This patriotic museum was founded on 11 March 1999. It was originally called the Kosiv Museum of the Liberation Struggle of the Carpathian Region. Since 2006, it has been a branch of the Stepan Bandera Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Museum of the Liberation Struggle. The Kosiv Museum of the Liberation Struggle is housed in a two-storey building from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which is made in the style of classical palace architecture.

Family museums and private collections

This private museum opened its doors to visitors in 2017. The founder of this wonderful museum was the famous master carver Mykola Strynadyuk. The museum operates at his creative workshop. The name comes from the author’s creative pseudonym – “Koka”. This is how Mykola called himself in his early childhood, when he could not speak.

This magnificent private ethnographic museum in Kosiv is located in the estate of the famous Kornelyuk family of craftsmen. To set up their own museum, the Kornelyuk built a six-room, two-storey building in a short time, which houses the museum itself.

Since the 2000s, the artist has gradually moved to her own studio.

Together with her husband Bohdan Diletia, they have achieved a closed, i.e. complete technological process of producing painted ceramics.

The master’s ornaments are influenced by the style of Hanna Roshchybyuk and Orysia Kozak. She decorates such items as jars, bowls, pots, pans, aubergines, cups, twins, vases, decorative plates and dishes, both on a white background and on brown, with stripes of rhythmically repeating motifs of geometric and floral ornaments.

The artist’s artistic style is most characterised by the products painted using the technique of carving on red clay with white angoba. Like her mother, she has an exquisite lace ornament. The range of products is diverse, including the Christmas set, animalistic plastic, tiles with painted backgrounds and one of the latest forms – a bath with an ear for holy Jordan water.

The park has discovered 1,214 species of mushrooms and fungi, 23 of which are listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine. The park’s employees use a unique re-situ methodology that makes it possible to grow rare mushrooms in natural conditions.

The park’s territory is also dotted with numerous rivers and streams. The largest of them are Liuchka, Pistynka, Rybnytsia, and Cheremosh, which are right tributaries of the Prut River. In the mountainous areas and when leaving the mountains, the rivers form rifts, pools, and waterfalls, which the local population calls ‘huks’ because of the roar and noise they cause.

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