Museum of the Kosiv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, Kosiv
The museum of an institution that traces its history to a weaving school of 1882: Hutsul folk art of the 19th to the first half of the 20th century, works by Kosiv masters and students' diploma works.
The institution was founded in Kosiv in 1882 as a weaving trade school attached to the Weaving Society. It went on to be the Provincial Weaving Trade School (from 1895), a crafts and trade school (from 1923), the Industrial School of Hutsul Art (1939–1940), the Art and Industry School (from 1940), the Kosiv School of Applied Art (from 1947), a technical college of folk art crafts (from 1968), a college (from 1994) and a state institute (from 2000); since 2006 it has been part of the Lviv National Academy of Arts. The museum was founded by Oleksii Solomchenko; in his lifetime more than three thousand exhibits were collected and systematised here (huculia.info). According to the ESU (2014), the holdings number over 3.5 thousand items: examples of Hutsul folk art from the 19th to the first half of the 20th century, works by masters of the Kosiv area from the second half of the 20th century, and students' diploma works. The collections include Hutsul stove tiles and articles of metal, leather and wood (huculia.info).
Address: 2 Mitskevycha Street, Kosiv; tel. +380 (3478) 2-12-60; e-mail kipdm@lnam.edu.ua (huculia.info, 16.09.2024). Visits by arrangement, except on Saturday and Sunday (ibid.); the sources give no prices. No recent (2025–2026) confirmation of the schedule was found — arrange your visit in advance. ≈260 m from the Hutsul Museum (55 Nezalezhnosti Street) by coordinates.