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Kosmach he was executed without trial and his body parts displayed in villages
around the Carpathians as a warning to other outlaws.
Western Ukraine continued to have a reputation for banditry until the 20th cen-
tury. This dubious 'tradition' was even revived for several years in the early 1990s
when whole convoys of trucks would mysteriously vanish from the region's high-
ways.
Sights
Museum of Hutsul Folk Art
MUSEUM
( 239 12;
http://hutsul.museum
; vul Teatralna 25; admission 15uah; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun)
This
well-curated exhibition of Hutsul artefacts is probably the best of its kind in Ukraine.
Decorated stove tiles and other ceramics, musical instruments, carved wooden tools,
boxes, furniture, traditional and embroidered folk dress, woven wall hangings and an in-
teresting collection of traditional Hutsul axes fill the museum's grand neoclassical home,
which started life in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a Ukrainian cul-
tural institute. Most of the wall texts have been translated into sound English but employ-
ing a guide (ask at the town's guesthouses) puts a considerable amount of meat on the ex-
hibition's bones.
DON'T MISS
SEW EARLY!
If you're determined to get your hands on some traditional Ukrainian embroidery,
you'll have to get up early to get the best bargains at Kolomyya's embroidery mar-
ket held near the On the Corner guesthouse. It starts at a bleary-eyed 3am, but as
prices are up to five times lower than in Kyiv, it might just be worth setting that
alarm clock for the early hours.
Pysanky Museum
MUSEUM
( 03433-278 91; vul Chornovola 39; adult/child 10/3uah; 10am-6pm Tue-Sun)
Kolomyya's
most eye-catching attraction is a monster concrete Easter egg, which sits rather self-con-
sciously on the town's main square. Inside and in an adjoining building you'll discover a
