Description of the attraction
Dolinsky Museum of Local Lore "Boykovshchina" in the Carpathians was founded in 1998. This museum is one of the youngest museums in the Carpathian region. And also it is the first museum dedicated to Boykivshchyna as a land, which is notable not only for its bright originality, but also for its antiquity, and yet, despite this, it has not been studied and little researched.
The new activities of this museum began in September 2003, when it received a brand new, just erected premises. The construction of the building for the Dolinsky Museum of Local Lore was facilitated by the American charitable foundation of Tatiana and Emelyan Antonovich. The opening ceremony of the museum took place on September 5, 2003, at the same time the first World Boyko Festival took place in the Carpathian region.
The exposition of the museum consists of interesting archaeological finds, Boyko's clothing and embroidery, household tools and labor of the past. There are also documents that confirm and illuminate various historical events, works of folk art, masterpieces of sacred art, handicrafts.
The undoubted highlight of the museum's exposition can be called the reconstruction of the Boyko's hut - a typical Boyko's house, which houses collections of dolls and objects of sacred art from the 16th-18th centuries, as well as a collection of dolls embroidered with colored threads.
A memorial room of the Antonovich family has been arranged in the Boykivshchyna museum of local lore. Here is a selection of materials telling about the life of patrons in the Valley, about family emigration to the USA and its reasons, about their charitable activities.
On the basis of the museum, a number of excursions for tourists have been developed, for example: "The Antonovich Family", "The History of the Valley City", "The Stone Miracle of Boykovshchina", etc.
