Tour to Pyrohovo

We invite you to tour to Pyrohovo – an ethnographic museum of folk architecture and mode of life, the largest in Ukraine. This is an architectural and landscape complex, where the history of all ethnographic regions of Ukraine is collected. The dwellings of Poltavschyna, Kyivschyna and Polissya can be seen there. The unique feature of the museum is that a lot of houses presented there are original and were brought from many regions of Ukraine and constructed on the museum’s territory. A lot of objects of national mode of life can be seen in those houses – dishes, towels (rushnyk), clothes and household items. The one-day tour is conducted individually. Duration: 4-5 hours.

Taverns

Шинок
A tavern is the house of an innkeeper with a passage and a cellar, a kind of a pub. The premises were divided into two halves, where the innkeeper lived in one part, and the other half served as a tavern (Ukrainian “shynok”).

Schools

Школы
Schools were three-year educational institutions. These were parish schools, where they taught arithmetic, spelling and the laws of God. In terms of architecture, it used to be a one-story building, divided into two halves with separate entrances, with wooden floors, whitewashed walls, and icons on the walls.

Forges

Кузницы
Forges are handicraft structures where village blacksmiths used to work. Inside the forge, you can see the tools of a blacksmith – an anvil, a vice, shelves with tools, etc. Today, this type of traditional architecture has practically disappeared and become relics.

Mills

Мельницы
Mills used to serve for grinding grain. There are wind and water mills too. Windmills can be four- or six-winged, pole-mounted. Those are one- or two-storey buildings with a canopy. On the first floor there is a storage room and a mechanism for lifting the top stone. On the second floor, there are millstones and a basket for filling grain.

Bell towers

Колокольни
The bell towers are examples of a monumental building of an old type, structure and construction techniques. On the territory there are unique objects of wooden construction, which have long disappeared in the regions, but were reconstructed by the museum.

Churches

Церкви
Churches are temples for religious services, which were necessarily in every Ukrainian settlement. There were no outbuildings in front of the entrance to the church; the doors were always in sight. Therefore, special attention was paid to their decoration. Inside, the church is divided into a vestibule, a middle church and an altar. On the territory of the museum you will see traditional buildings of churches and chapels.

Dwellings

Хатки
“Khaty” are traditional dwellings in different regions of Ukraine, starting from the 17th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The oldest architectural exhibit is a hut from the Volyn region (1587). Inside the premises you can see folk clothes, furniture and tools. In addition, there are also utility rooms.

South of Ukraine

Юг Украины
South of Ukraine includes Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odessa and Kirovohrad regions. The main feature of the region is the use of natural stone and clay as building materials. Analogs of the South Ukrainian dwellings can be found in the monuments of many archaeological cultures, starting from the Trypillia period.

Dnieper region

Надднепрянщина
Dnieper region includes Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava (west), Kirovohrad (north) and Zhytomir (northeast) regions. The exposition of the region includes 52 architectural monuments of the 17th – beginning of the 20th century. All objects are combined into estates with streets and the center. Here you can see a square with a council, a church, a school, a priest’s house, and a tavern.

Slobozhanshchyna

Слобожанщина
Slobozhanshchyna contains Kharkiv, Lugansk, Sumy and Donetsk regions. The exposition of this region occupies 4 hectares with more than 50 typical buildings of the region. Among the exhibits there are 32 monuments of folkloric architecture and 18 reconstructions. The culture of Poltava and Slobozhanshchyna are similar to each other and therefore are presented in the museum at the same location.

Poltavshchyna

Полтавщина
Poltavshchyna, or Poltava region is famous for its traditional log walls of the canopy, wicker chimneys and two through doors, which were not plastered on the outside. The south of the Poltava region of the XIX century was famous for log-frame housing construction, the north – for log house construction. The culture of Poltava and Slobozhanshchyna are closely related and therefore are presented in the museum together.

Polissia

Полесье
Polissia is a Ukrainian territory that includes Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr (northern regions), Chernihiv and Sumy regions. The exposition features 48 objects, including huts with adobe ovens, mills, churches and other buildings. The peculiarity of the Polissia huts is in the planning of a single-row development with a house with clamps, a closed courtyard or a courtyard for two houses. Here you can also see ceramics, clothing, woven carpets and towels of the region.

Podillia

Подолье
Podillia is a region located between the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers. The expositions of this region occupy an area of 6 hectares. Here are the monuments of architecture of the XIX – early XX centuries, including 8 residential and 16 outbuildings, windmills and a tavern.

Carpathians

Карпаты
Carpathians is an exposition where Bukovyna, Transcarpathia, Hutsulshchyna and others are presented. You will see 19 residential and 20 outbuildings that convey the peculiarities of settlement planning, traditional crafts and crafts of the inhabitants of the region. Household items, tools and products of local craftsmen are exhibited in the interiors.