National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art

National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya Folk Art - a museum in Kolomyia, Ukraine with a group of greater than 50 000 items documenting the history and folks culture of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya regions. The museum became based in 1926 and opened to public in the end of 1934. It is located in the former Peoples' House building inside the city center. It holds a call of Yosaphat Kobrynsky. In 1945 it become entitled the State Museum of Hutsulshchyna Folk Art. The predominant exhibition is filled with the items from Hutsul and Pokutian villages like: adorned stove tiles, musical devices, carved timber tools, fixtures, folks costumes, particular Hutsul embroidery, woven wall - hangings and a collection of traditional Hutsul axes.

In the history of Kolomyia there were already some attempts to create a nearby museum. First in 1892 a non-public collector and beginner archeologist Edmund Starzenski set up a private museum of Pokuttya Region. It changed into a collection targeted on so known as "antiquities" which ment archeological artefacts, however there had been additionally items of nature in addition to ethnographic objects. It was positioned in his villa and became divided into two parts: the library and the right museum. Circa 1900 he gave the gathering to his son and in 1909 part of it turned into given to the National Museum in Cracow.