Museum of Folk Architecture and Country Life Shevchenko Grove
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place | Lviv , Ukraine |
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opening | 1971 |
Number of visitors (annually) | 150,000 |
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The large museum of folk architecture and rural life "Shevchenko Hain" ( Ukrainian Музей народної архітектури і побуту "Шевченківський гай" ) is an open-air museum of folk architecture within the regional landscape park Snesinnja in the Ukrainian city of Lviv (Lemberg).
history
Even though the museum didn't open until 1971, its history goes back to the Ukrainian scientist Sventsitsky Hilarion and the late 1920s. Michael Dragan, with the support of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, was able to move the wooden church, built in 1761 and consecrated to St. Nicholas, from the village of Krywko. At its original location it had become superfluous after the construction of a new church and should be dismantled. Today, as a cultural monument of national and European importance, it is one of the main attractions of the museum.
Work on the actual construction of the museum began in 1966 on the initiative of the Museum of Ethnology and Crafts in Lviv and led to the opening of the museum in 1971.
The museum
The museum has 150 buildings from 54 different lands, as well as several exhibition buildings and a museum shop. Among the buildings are agricultural properties, blacksmiths, schools, fulling mills, sawmills, water mills, windmills, and several wooden churches. The oldest building is the church of the village of Cap from 1749. The 60 hectare area of the museum is divided into six ethnographic areas. In each of these areas there is a small village with 15 to 20 monuments from the regions of western Ukraine. The villages each have a name, namely Бойківщина (Bojkiwschtschyna, Boyko -Dorf) Лемківщина (Lemkiwschtschyna, Lemken -Dorf) Гуцульщина (Huzulschtschyna, Hutsul -Dorf) Буковина ( Bukovina ), Поділля (Podiljja, Podolia ) and Львівщина (Lwiwschtschyna , Lviv village).
The museum organizes folklore exhibitions and folk music festivals.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 24 ° 3 ′ 59 ″ E