Tuesday, 26 March 2024

As Easter Is Just Around The Corner,

where better to go than the Easter Egg Museum?


photographs Wikipedia, the museum is shaped as you might have guessed like a Easter egg, it is the Pysanka Museum, the museum of pysanka, (Easter eggs), located in Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, 

 "The building, made in the form of a 13-meter-high Easter egg, became a kind of advertisement not only for the museum, the city and the region, but also for the entire state in general. After all, the Museum of Easter painting is the only such institution in the world" Yaroslava Tkachuk, director of the museum,

it was opened on October 26, 1987, the current Pysanka Museum building was built in 2000, as you might expect hundreds of eggs are displayed inside, also many events take place, you can actually attend classes, during the master class, you will learn about the peculiarities of the ornamental compositions of Easter eggs from different ethnographic regions of Ukraine, and you will be able to decipher the symbolic charms that decorate Easter eggs, 

 there is an exhibition of traditional Easter eggs by Lviv artists that has been opened in the Museum of Easter Painting, fifteen Lviv masters - different in age and profession, united by a great love for Easter eggs and Ukrainian folk art, presented in Kolomyia more than 450 Easter eggs written on chicken, goose, duck and ostrich eggs, and if you are out this weekend, Happy Easter Egg Hunting!


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