Shevchenko’s grove is located on the wooded hills bore (continued Podolsk Upland) in the northeast part of town in an area Kaiserwald in about 84 hectares, near the park near the “High Castle” in the Landscape Park “Znesinnia.
Museum successfully integrates hilly terrain, vegetation restored Carpathians and carefully moved historic buildings from different regions of Western Ukraine.
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In 1966, by initiative of the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts began concrete work unit was added to traditional construction, which in 1971 and was reorganized at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.
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The museum has about 120 monuments of folk architecture from the western regions of Ukraine. In addition to the permanent exhibition and museum stores is about 20 thousand objects of daily life and crafts.
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The museum area of 60 hectares is divided into six ethnographic zones. Each zone – a mini-village, consisting of 15 – 20 monuments of folk architecture. In the residential and economic areas contain household daily use, agricultural implements, vehicles and crafts. Six of these mini-villages have names: “Boykovschina”, “Lemkivschyna”, “Huzulschyna”, “Bukovina”, “skirts” and “Region”, with the last three little visited by tourists, as there is not very informative
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With more than 120 architectural monuments from Western Ukraine, 6 – wooden church. The oldest exhibit – peasant hut in 1749. There is also a smithy, school, sawmill (sawmill), cloth factory, a water mill and windmill.
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Skansen on Kaiserwald was opened in 1971. The idea of this museum is famous Ukrainian scientist Hilarion Sventsitskoho which end 20 years of the twentieth century began to work to create a museum of the sky.
