The Art Museum of Prykarpattia ( uk, Музей мистецтв Прикрапаття, originally called the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum, until 2012) is a regional art museum that is located in the Church of Virgin Mary in

Ivano-Frankivsk Ivano-Frankivsk ( uk, Іва́но-Франкі́вськ, translit=Iváno-Frankívśk ), formerly Stanyslaviv ( pl, Stanisławów ; german: Stanislau), is a city located in Western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Ivano-Frankivsk O ...

. It has one of the best collections of local

religious art Religious art is artistic imagery using religious inspiration and motifs and is often intended to uplift the mind to the spiritual. Sacred art involves the ritual and cultic practices and practical and operative aspects of the path of the spiritu ...

. It is the only art museum in the region and specializes in displaying works by local artists. 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 exhibitions are the "Religious art of Galicia in the 15th-20th centuries" and baroque sculptures by

Johann Georg Pinsel Johann Georg Pinsel ( pl, Johann Georg / Jan Jerzy Pinsel, uk, Йоган Ґеорґ Пінзель; 1715–1725 – 1761 or early 1762) was a Baroque-Rococo sculptor active in Eastern Galicia (then in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, now Ukr ...

. The museum has two branches: * Memorial Museum of

Vasyl Kasiyan Vasyl Illich Kasiyan ( uk , Василь Ілліч Касіян; 1 January 1896 – 26 June 1976) was a Soviet and Ukrainian painter, graphic, parliamentary, People's Painter of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union. ...

Sniatyn Sniatyn ( uk, Сня́тин, translit=Sniatyn; pl, Śniatyn; ro, Sneatîn, older ; yi, שניאַטין) is a town located in Kolomyia Raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine along the Prut river. It is located at around . Sniaty ...

* Museum-Monument of Architecture and Painting of the XVI and XVII Centuries, in the

Collection

At the end of the 2000s, the collection contained approximately 15,000 pieces, which include unique examples of Galician

iconography Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct fro ...

and baroque sculpture, particularly six sculptures of Pinsel, and classical works of western Ukrainian painting by

Kornylo Ustiyanovych Kornylo Mykolayovych Ustiyanovych (Ukrainian: Корни́ло Микола́йович Устияно́вич; 22 September 1839, Volkyv, Lviv Raion — 22 July 1903, Dolgoye, Drohobych Raion) was a Ukrainian painter, writer and folklorist. His ...

Ivan Trush Ivan Trush ( uk, Іван Труш, pronounced as ''Troosh'': 1869–1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Impressionism, impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia (C ...

Yulian Pankevych Yuliian Yakovych Pankevych, sometimes Yulian Pankevych (Ukrainian: Юліян Якович Паньке́вич: (4 July 1863, Ustia-Zelenye, Chortkiv Raion — 1933, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian painter, writer and activist. Sometimes, he went by t ...

Yaroslav Pstrak Yaroslav Vasylovych Pstrak (Ukrainian: Яросла́в Васи́льович Пстрак; 24 March 1878, Hvizdets – 16 March 1916, Kharkiv) was a Ukrainian painter, illustrator and graphic artist. Biography He was one of five children born ...

Oleksa Novakivskyi Oleksa Kharlampiyovych Novakivskyi (Ukrainian: Оле́кса Харла́мпійович Новакі́вський; 14 March 1872, Obodyvka, Trostianets Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast — 29 August 1935, Lviv) was a Ukrainian painter and art teacher; ...

Osip Sorokhtei Osip-Roman Iyosafatovych Sorokhtei (Ukrainian: Осип-Роман Йосафатович Сорохтей; 28 February 1890, near Baranyvtsy, Sambir Raion – 28 November 1941, in Ivano-Frankivsk) was a Ukrainian painter, graphic artist, caricatu ...

Olena Kulchytska Olena Lvivna Kulchytska ( uk, Олена Львівна Кульчицька; 15 September 1877 – 8 March 1967) was a Ukrainian artist, painter, and civil activist. Biography Family She was born in the town of Berezhany, Galicia in the mod ...

, and others.

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{{authority control Art museums and galleries in Ukraine Museums in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Art museums established in 1980