Pysanka Museum

The Pysanka Museum is Kolomyia's calling card: a museum of Ukrainian decorated Easter eggs housed inside a huge egg-shaped building. It sounds gimmicky, but the collection makes the case for taking the tradition seriously.

Look closely at the patterns rather than rushing through for the photograph. Pysanky carry regional styles, religious symbols, family memory, and a stubborn sense of continuity that is especially moving in wartime Ukraine.

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The museum's building is itself a giant pysanka, about as literal as architecture gets. It works because Kolomyia is one of the places where decorated Easter eggs are not souvenir kitsch but part of a deep regional craft language.

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