Pysanka Museum

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The Pysanka Museum was built in 2000 in the small city of Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivska Oblast. The central part of the museum has a form of a painted easter egg, pysanka, 14 meters in height. This is the unique museum of the such ornament which became a visit card of the city and in the August of 2007 recognized as the landmark of the modern Ukraine.
The museum has opened September 23, 2000 during the X International Hutsul festival. The concept of the exposition was created by the director Yaroslava Tkachuk, and embodied into life by local artists Vasyl Andrushko and Myroslav Yasinskyi. The museum is monumetalized by the statue of the Holy Virgin, the work of the local sculpturer Roman Zakharchuk.
The uniqueness of the museum does not concludes only on the fact that it is made in the form of an egg (14 m in height and 10 m in diameter). The interior is completely made out of a colored glass the area of which is over 600 m². And by the way, it has no roof! The exterior oranament is made in the three dimentional style. The exposition itself reflects the ornamental, compositional, and colorful riches of the local art.
At this time, the museum possesses a collection of over 600 pysanki represented by the majority of the Oblasti of Ukraine, and also from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, USA, Canada, France, and India. Some of the samples were made yet in between of XIX-XX centuries.