Description of the attraction
The Museum of Folk Art of M. Strutinsky occupies an honorable place among the cultural institutions of the Kosiv region operating today. M. Strutinsky is a man of many-sided talent and abilities. Since 1961, he has been collecting samples of Ukrainian embroidery, household items of the Hutsul region and works of art.
The museum occupies two large halls and a corridor of the Kosovo School of Arts, in which M. Strutinsky himself taught for 30 years. The exposition of the museum is represented by a huge number of works by folk masters of Bukovina, Hutsulshchyna, Pokut'ya and Podolia - these are objects of sacred art, ancient icons, embroidery, folk clothing, weaving, painting, ceramics and other exhibits.
The most complete and complete is the collection of folk embroideries, which are represented by numerous products of religious, ceremonial, household and clothing purposes with samples of embroidery from individual villages, regions and regions. The collector has completed artistic and ethnographic clothing ensembles of Bukovina, Podillya, Hutsulshchyna, Boykivshchyna and Lemkivshchyna with an emphasis on the peculiarities of these regions.
The age criteria of embroidery in the collector's exposition make it possible to explore the peculiarities of the cultural and worldview traditions of the inhabitants of the Carpathian region.
Particularly valuable is the collection of sacred art, containing icons painted on wood and glass from the middle of the 18th-19th centuries, samples of the religious and ritual art of the people - wooden and metal crosses, candlesticks and bowls.
Of extremely great importance for the study of the history of culture are precious works of art of folk musical and instrumental art - flutes, cymbals, violins, trembitas, dated to the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century.
Also, the museum has a collection of leather goods (bast shoes, boots, bags, belts, jewelry), differing in the features of shape and ornament.
