Art Museum Art Museum Prycarpattya Ukrainian Музей

Art Museum

Art Museum Prycarpattya (Ukrainian: Музей мистецтв Прикрапаття) is a regional art museum that is located in the Collegiate Church of Virgin Mary in Ivano-Frankivsk. It has one of the best collection of the local religious art. It is the only art museum in the region and specialized in studying works of local artists and ancient art. The museum was established in 1980 and replaced the museum of geology of the city's Institute of Oil and Gas. It possesses a 15, 000 item collection. The most important are exhibitions of the "Religious art of Galicia in 15 th-20 th centuries" and baroque sculptures of Johann-George Pinzel. The museum has two branches: Kasian Art Museum in Sniatyn Museum-Landmark of Architecture and Painting in the Holy Spirit Church (Rohatyn)

Collection[edit] At the end of 2000 s collection accounted for some 15, 000 samples which include unique benchmarks of Galician iconography and baroque sculpture, particularly six sculptures of Pinzel, and classical works of western Ukrainian painting Kornylo Ustyianovych, Ivan Trush, Yulian Pankevych, Yaroslav Pstrak, Oleksa Novakivsky, Osyp Sorokhtei, Olena Kulchytska, and other works of various artists.

The museum of arts of Prykarpattya is contain ed in theapartment of former church that is his torical andarchitectural sight of national value, i n the center of Ivano-Frankivsk. An artistic museum in Ivano. Frankivsk was open in 1980 inthe apartment of former cult building the baroque Collectivechurch of innocent Co nception of Virgo Maria XVII of century, that w as the burial vault of

Collective church of the most Holy Virgo. Maria. The exact date of erection of church is unknown. The f ounderof city Анджей Потоцький began to erect fortr ess wallsround a city, simultaneously took up building of римо-католицького parochial church