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Ivano-Frankivsk region / Kolomyya

The town of Kolomyya, the center of Pokuttya region, is situated at a distance of about 70 km far from Yaremche.
Three wonderful museums are placed in Kolomyya. The first one, which is worth being mentioned, is the Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya named after Mykhailo Kotsyubynskyi. This Museum was opened in the year of 1926. Nowadays it possesses the biggest collection of the articles of everyday use, metal and ceramic articles, national clothes and embroidery of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya.
The Museum of Pysanka (Easter Egg), which is unique and the only one all over the world, is placed in the very heart of the town. It has the original architectural form of an egg and owns the extremely rich collection of pysankas. Here you will have a chance to admire the beauty of Easter eggs and try yourself out in the technique of wax decorations. This extraordinary work of art, which is also being called the eighth world wonder, is a glass pysanka. The extraordinarity of the project lies in the fact that the museum is made in the form of an egg which is fourteen meters high and the diameter of which reaches ten meters. It is made completely out of coloured glass with the total square of the glass surface more than 600 square meters.