Yavorivshchyna Museum, Yavoriv

The Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum is a historical and ethnographic museum in the city of Yavoriv, Lviv region, a collection of materials and objects on the history, culture and prominent personalities of the Yavorivshchyna; a traditional urban cultural center.

Dante wrote: "Burned bridges in the past open the way to the future," which means that we must remember the past while stepping with faith into a brighter future.

The Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum, which was established in 1927-1933 on the initiative of the Native School Circle, serves as a corner of the past where you can learn about the clothes worn by our ancestors, the tools used to cultivate the land, and the money used to pay in shops or markets in a particular century. Since 1931, the Yavorivshchyna Society has been in charge of the institution. Lawyer and public figure Mykhailo Filts, artist Oleksa Kharkiv, and teachers Mykhailyna Hordynska and Viktoriia Turyanska became active supporters of the museum.

Back then, it was planned to allocate a separate room for the Yavorivshchyna Museum, but due to lack of funds, the corner of history found a home on the second floor of the Yavoriv gymnasium "Ridna Shkola", where it existed until the Second World War. The revival and reopening of the Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum took place on August 22, 2002 (on the eve of Independence Day).

After the Second World War, local activists planned to revive the Yavoriv museum in a folk style. It was decorated with religious exhibits, such as old church books, icons, antique furniture, and clothing... Omelian Koronchevsky became the museum's director in 1945. But soon all of these ideas were successfully suppressed by the authorities of the time, and the museum was directed by Soviet propaganda.

According to the stories of old-timers, the then-revived museum found shelter in the former court building (a separate room). It is not known under what circumstances it ceased its activities. But it happened around the 1970s. Many of the exhibits from the Yavoriv museum are now stored in the collections of Lviv museums. It is unknown how they got there. The third revival of the Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum took place on August 22, 2002 (on the eve of Ukraine's Independence Day). This event was timed to coincide with the World Congress of People from Yavorivshchyna.

At present (2000-2015), the funds of the Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum include more than 600 exhibits.

The museum exposition is housed in 4 rooms and is conditionally divided into sections:

• "Spinning and weaving";
• "Household items";
• "Ancient Yavoriv clothes";
• "Folk crafts of Yavoriv district";
• "Archaeological monuments and numismatics".

The exhibition of Volodymyr Patyk's works "Wooden Churches of Yavoriv District" is of artistic value. The museum regularly exhibits the best works of students of the art department of the Yavoriv Mykhailo Verbytskyi School of Art.

The Yavoriv Museum actively cooperates with educational institutions and organizes and conducts interesting events, such as an hour of local history "From the Past of Yavoriv", a lesson-tour of the museum and lessons of folklore, thematic exhibitions, and master classes.

The museum institution is located in a historic elegant house at 31 Lvivska St., Yavoriv (Lviv region).

Opening hours: 10:00-18:00, lunch break 13:00-14:00, Saturday, Monday - days off.