National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia Folk Art

The Yosafat Kobrynskyi National Museum of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia Folk Art (Ukrainian: Національний Музей Народного Мистецтва Гуцульщини та Покуття імені Йосафата Кобринського, romanized: Natsionalnyi Muzei Narodnoho Mystetstva Hutsulshchyny ta Pokuttia imeni Yosafata Kobrynskoho) is a museum in Kolomyia, Ukraine with a collection of more than 50,000 objects documenting the history and folk culture of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttia regions.

Currently, the museum consist of three branches: The main exhibition is filled with the objects from Hutsul and Pokuttian villages like: decorated stove tiles, musical instruments, carved wooden tools, furniture, folk costumes, unique Hutsul embroidery,[2] woven wall–hangings and a collection of traditional Hutsul axes.

Circa 1900 he gave the collection to his son and in 1909 part of it was given to the National Museum in Cracow.

[4] The Museum of Pokuttia Region was revived in June 1913, when Bronisława Starzeńska, after the death of her husband and son, gave the rest of her family collection to the Society of Community School and the museum was open to the public in the rooms of the Peoples' House.

The collection of about 755 ethnographic and historic objects together with a few hundred coins didn't last long.