Description of the attraction
The O. Dovbush Museum in Kosmach is a private house-museum, which is located in the village of Kosmach, Kosiv district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. The museum belongs to the Ukrainian ethnographer Mikhail Yusipchuk-Didishin. The museum exhibits items of Hutsul life, as well as works of art "Dovbushians".
O. Dovbush Museum was created in 1975 by local enthusiast M. Didishin. The exposition is located in the house next to which the rebel leader Oleksa Dovbush was killed more than three centuries ago.
M. Didishin moved Dzvinchukova's hut from Dzhugrin back in the 70s, after he persuaded the director of the Soviet economy to build a 100-year old woman who lived in it, a new house. An examination carried out in Soviet times established that the wintering house made of yew with a cedar door in 1724 and built without a single nail was actually more than 250 years old. Today the Dzvinchuk winter house is not only the main exhibit of the museum, but also its repository.
In total, the museum has over 500 exhibits, including household items of the Hutsuls, weapons from the times of the Oprishkiv movement, as well as rare things: hatchets, sleeveless jackets, bartki, peres and much more. Among the unique things of the museum are the forend of that very deadly for Dovbush gun, Dovbushev's tabivka bag, a sardak, twelve rings, a hatchet-bar with the date "1734", which Dovbush punished the sknarist brothers Mocharnakovs from Mikulichin, and hundreds of applied objects that would be used in Hutsul XVIII-XIX centuries. The Museum of O. Dovbush also contains unusual sculptures made of stone and wood.
In the courtyard of M. Didishin there is a monument to O. Dovbush hewn with his own hand. The opening of the monument took place in July 1988, in the year of the millennium of the baptism of Kievan Rus.
You can inspect the house-museum of O. Dovbush in the afternoon, having previously agreed by phone with the owner.
