Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum, Art museum in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.
The Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Art Museum occupies the former Baroque Collegiate Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, a 17th-century building that served as the Potocki family burial place. Its exhibition hall holds Galician icons from the 15th to 19th centuries, Baroque sculpture and paintings by Polish, Austrian, German and Italian masters of the 18th to 20th centuries.
The museum opened in 1980 in the 17th-century Baroque Collegiate Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, which served as the Potocki family mausoleum. In 1990–1993 restorers uncovered E. R. Fabijański's 1877 wall paintings, and on 18 August 1993 the permanent exhibition "Sacred Art of Galicia from the 15th to the 20th Century" opened. Two branches followed: Vasyl Kasiyan Museum in Sniatyn (1982) and the Church of the Holy Spirit in Rohatyn (1983), a monument of 1598.
The museum's core exhibit, "Sacred Art of Galicia from the 15th to the 20th Century", opened on 18 August 1993 after restorers uncovered E. R. Fabianskyi's 1877 wall paintings inside the former collegiate church. The display brings together Galician icons, baroque sculpture and old church books printed in Lviv, Pochaiv and Unev, alongside folk pieces by Hutsul, Pokuttia, Boiko and Opillia craftsmen.
The museum is open daily except Monday, from 10:00 to 17:00. It stands at 8 Sheptytskoho Square in the very centre of Ivano-Frankivsk, inside the former collegiate church. The building is a national-level architectural monument, so visitors enter through the historic church interior rather than a modern hall.
Six sculptures by Johann Georg Pinsel, the 18th-century baroque master, are held here, alongside works by Thomas Hutter, Konrad Kutschenreiter, Matthäus Polejowski and Dionizy Stanetti. The interior also keeps wall paintings by E. R. Fabiański, uncovered by Lviv restorers between 1990 and 1993.
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