Shevchenkovsky Guy
Shevchenko Guy is an amazing open-air museum in Lviv, which has collected household items and ancient buildings from 6 ethnographic zones of Ukraine.
The museum is located in the landscape park "Znesenye", occupying a huge territory of 60 hectares. The entire area of the Shevchenko Guy Museum is divided into 6 ethnic zones, depending on the culture they represent: Boykovskaya, Podolsk, Hutsulskaya, Volyno-Podolsk, Lemkovskaya, Hutsulskaya. In total, 124 architectural monuments from Western Ukraine, united into 54 estates, are represented in the Shevchenko Guy. Among the exhibits you can see peasant huts, a sawmill, a blacksmith shop, a cloth mill, mills and more than 20,000 household items. There are 6 churches in the Shevchenko guy, one of which became the first in the museum's collection.
In the 1920s, residents of the village of Krivko built a brand-new church, and the old church of St. St. Nicholas, built back in 1763, decided to dismantle. Then the Ukrainian art critic Mikhail Dragan told them to wait, and he petitioned Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky with a request to save the church for a future museum. In 1930, under the leadership of Dragan, the church was dismantled and assembled in Lviv, thus contributing to the Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life. In 2013, the museum received a UNESCO grant to improve its tourist appeal.
On December 1, 2016, the Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life in Lviv was named after St. Klimenty Sheptytsky and now it is officially called the Klimenty Sheptytsky Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life.
Walking through the well-groomed hilly landscape of the museum, looking at the ancient buildings, will be pleasant for both adults and children. Visiting the Shevchenko Guy Museum, you can feel the whole flavor and culture of the Ukrainian village. The museum often hosts festivals, contests, and teaches students how to play ancient musical instruments, make soap, bake bread in an oven, and weave cloth.
