Regional State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (Skansen)

Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life was founded in 1977. It is located on the slopes of a large ravine in Moskovska Olimpiada Street.     More than three dozens of wooden buildings are represented in the alfresco museum: two-layer windmills from the village of Rukshyn of Khotyn district and village Shyshkivtsi of Novoselytsya district, smithy, a wooden St. Nicholas’ church of so-called house-type from the village of Drachyntsi of Kitsman district, logged framed steeple from the village of Berehomet. The icons of “Bukovynian primitive” are displayed inside the temple, also a collection of sacred paintings is exhibited. Typical buildings of various segments of population of old Bukovyna are also situated here.    Every year the Skansen holds national festivals that gather a lot of guests.