The Yosaphat Kobrynskyi National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia Folk Art is one of the most prominent Ukrainian institutions that research, preserve and promote traditional folk art of the Carpathian region.
Founded in 1926, it was the first Ukrainian museum in Halychyna (Western Ukraine). The Museum’s collection includes more than 50 000 artifacts, a number of them dated to thousands of years. The traditional folk crafts of the regions of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia, such as wood carving, artistic leather and metal work, ceramics, traditional folk costumes, embroidery, woven textiles, and jewelry, Easter eggs, painting and sacred art are represented in the Museum. The oldest samples include sacred art objects, dating to the 17th-19th centuries, which were the parts of Hutsul churches. A traditional Hutsul house is also put on display in the museum. The personal belongings of Andriy Chaikovskyi, the famous Ukrainian writer, lawyer, political and civil activist whose heritage was neglected by the Soviets make a valuable part of the museum exhibition.
More than 250 thousand tourists from over 46 countries visit the National Museum and its branches – The Easter Egg Museum/Pysanka Museum, The Kosiv Museum of Hutsulshchyna Folk Art, The Yaremche Museum Of Carpathian Ethnography and Ecology, and The Shukhevych Family Museum.
