Ivan Franko Literary and Memorial Museum, Kryvorivnia

Kryvorivnia, Verkhovyna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine

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The museum is housed in the former house of Vasyl Yakibiuk, which Ivan Franko frequently visited from 1901 to 1914, mostly in the summer months. Other people who visited Franko in Kryvorivnia were Lesia Ukrainka, Hnat Khotkevych, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Oleksandr Oles, Antin Krushelnytskyi, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Volodymyr Shukhevych, Ivan Trush, and the Polish writer Stanisław Wincenz.

Since 1953, a room-museum, a village club, and a library have been established here. In 1960, the Ivan Franko Literary and Memorial Museum was established in this house. The museum exposition is located in 5 rooms. The museum keeps memorabilia used by Franko: the bed on which the writer slept, the chair he sat on, the table he worked at, nets for fishing, a Hutsul axe presented by the owner of the house, a clock that hung in the owner's house during Franko's life, a bench where Franko's guests sat.

The most noteworthy exhibits are the mixer of the time, much larger than the modern one and made entirely of wood, and the table that was used in the filming of the movie Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. The museum also has a folding chair that Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi used to rest on. Among the exhibits of the museum in Kryvorivnia is also a Hutsul stove decorated with tiles made by Oleksa Bakhmatyuk in 1874.

Another room in the museum is dedicated to a prominent resident of the village, Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit. Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit is the author of more than 1000 handwritten and hand-bound and illustrated books. A large collection of icons that she collected has been preserved. Over time, it is planned to open a separate museum of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit.

In the Ivan Franko Literary and Memorial Museum in Kryvorivnia, you can feel the past and present meet. In the small halls of the Ivan Franko Museum, the art of past centuries intersects with contemporary art, and you can feel its close connection. The museum is also interesting because it is located in a wooden Hutsul house, more than a hundred years old.

Here you will be hospitably welcomed and given an interesting tour, told about the life and work of Ivan Franko, and introduced to the Hutsul flavor and way of life. The museum presents well-preserved ancient things and household items of mountain life. You will see old wooden furniture, carved chests, bowls, a table-chest, examples of Hutsul embroidery.

Days off: Monday

Opening hours: from 10:00 to 18:00. Lunch: from 13:00 to 14:00.

This museum took part in the project "Open Tourism: Accessibility of Recreation in Ivano-Frankivsk Region for People with Special Needs".