Carpathian Wooden House Museum, Boryslav

In the very center of Boryslav, there is a real museum of antiquity - a Carpathian wooden house built without a single nail and filled to the brim with the most interesting exhibits from the owner's private collection. Tourists joke that it is a kind of quest to find this object. Even though it is located in the heart of the oil workers' town and practically borders on the main road, even the locals know little about it. But you'll agree that there's a certain attraction in that.

The house was built of fir logs in the Carpathians in the village of Vyzhniy Bereziv, Kosiv district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. It is over 200 years old and was actually the oldest house in the village. The house was built without a single nail in 1802. In 2013, the hut was moved to the city of Boryslav. An old plaque with the former address of the house in Polish, Berezow Wyzny, 52, has been preserved on the doorstep.

The owner, a resident of Boryslav, Serhiy Silantiev, lives there. The museum's owner, the head of the Polish Society, an expert and researcher of Boryslav's history, a collector and connoisseur of antiquities, welcomes tourists and treats them to coffee with a special ingredient.

You enter the courtyard and seem to find yourself in the past, when cows walked in the center and chickens ran underfoot, and people lived in low wooden huts, ate food from their farms and had 10 children.

The exhibits of the hut-museum are a great hobby of Serhii Volodymyrovych. According to him, it was his dream to live in an old house. He not only realized it, but also became seriously interested in collecting all kinds of antiquities. In the house, you can see old household items: original furniture from the 20s and 30s, ancient icons and images, a collection of jugs, plates, and other kitchen utensils.

A few months ago, in May of this year, Mr. Serhiy's yard was filled with another building - a spychlir, bought and transported from the neighborhood of Hubychi. This wooden barn was built in 1861 and was intended to store grain. To this day, it is very well preserved and serves the current owner as a room-museum.

There are a wide variety of antiques here: millstones, barrels, a kuffer, a bench, tools for processing flax and brushes for combing it, a spatula for fluffing grain, a thermos of unusually large size used to carry food in the field, a metalworking machine, a separator, handicrafts, clothes, shoes, folk costumes, and many more interesting exhibits.

The enthusiast plans to open a museum of weaving crafts, as he has many exhibits related to weaving in his personal collection, and Mr. Serhii said that in the future he plans to create a living museum where you can grind grain, pound kutia, weave a couple of rows on a loom, and more.

It is quite easy to visit the Carpathian House. The house is located in the center of Boryslav. Take a minibus #797 to Vesnianna Street. Then it's about a 10-minute walk to Ivan Franko Square and the house.