The Shevchenkivs’kyi Hai (Its full name is the National
Architecture and Rural Life Museum) is an open-air museum of Ukrainian
village life and a living reproduction of Western Ukraine from centuries past. It
is 3 km from Lviv’s centre and close to Vysokyi Zamok Park. The museum’s
grounds cover 84 hectares of the leafy Kaizervald area.
At this
museum one can experience Ukrainian village just like it was back when people
live in wooden huts, with no electricity and other modern conveniences. The
museum is divided into 6 ethnographic regions of the western part of Ukraine
with 124 architectural objects, including wooden village houses, churches and
everyday household items preserved in their original look.
One group of
peoples represented is the Lemkos (Ukrainian: Лeмки). The Lemkos is one of
several quantitatively and territorially small ethnic sub-groups inhabiting the
Carpathian Mountains who also identify as either Rusyn or Ukrainian.
The
distinctive wooden architectural style of the Lemko churches (as opposed to
their neighbouring sub-ethnic groups such as the Boikos) is to place the
highest cupola of the church building at the entrance to the church, with the
roof sloping downward toward the sanctuary.
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postcard came from Nastya O. (22 July 2014) Postcrossing.
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