Museum - cheese dairy "Hata Staya", Verkhovyna
"Hata Staya" is a Hutsul old house-museum where you can learn about and take part in the process of making budz cheese from sheep's milk, a traditional Hutsul dish. Master classes and tastings are held here. The museum has various Hutsul household items, traditional clothing, and utensils.
"Our dear hostesses and hosts, we invite you to our Hutsul hut," with these words, Halyna Mokan from Verkhovyna invites seekers of folk flavor to her cheese world. Halyna has opened her own museum in Verkhovyna called "Hata-staya" where she tells about traditional home cheese making.
TheHata Staya (cheese dairy) was opened in 2014. An interesting location of this museum is a specially equipped place where "milk is made" - the local term for cheese making. For this purpose, in the yard at the back of the house, there is a variety of equipment, from a cauldron over an open fire to various barrels necessary for the preparation and storage of sheep cheese. The house itself has a corridor and two rooms with authentic clothes and household items. The oldest part of the building is the room with the stove, where embroidered shirts and towels, dishes (plates, jugs), carpets, etc. are collected. Another room, the Hutsul Room, is adapted for master classes. Here you can cook local dishes (for example, banosh), listen to drumming and try weaving.
The house itself has a corridor and two rooms with authentic clothes and household items. The oldest part of the building is the room with the stove, where embroidered shirts and towels, dishes (plates, jugs), carpets, etc. are collected.
Another room, the Hutsul Room, is adapted for master classes. Here you can cook local dishes (for example, banosh), listen to drymba and try weaving.
A staya is an artisanal Hutsul cheese dairy with a cauldron over an open fireplace. It is in these huts-stayas that shepherds in the meadows cook the meadow cheeses-budz, vurda, and bryndza-all summer long. In the Hata Staya museum, you can see the whole process with your own eyes and join in with your own hands to taste the cheese and other Hutsul dishes at the end of the tour. Ms. Halyna is preparing a special menu for the participants of the "In the Footsteps of Forgotten Ancestors" tour.
Entrance fees: adult - 20 UAH per person, children - 15 UAH per person. The price includes a demonstration of making and tasting Hutsul cheese.
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