Art Museum (Ivano-Frankivsk)
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 15th-20th 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
At the end of 2000s 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.
External links
- (Ukrainian) Hours of operation
- (Ukrainian) Quick overview
- Museum exposition
- Art Museum
- Ivano-Frankivsk Art Museum
