Quick Guide to Ukrainian Architecture: Scansens

One cannot stay indifferent with quiet cool houses with reed roofs, farms, and mills slowly rotating their blades in wide fields. Centuries later, you can walk again along the reeds and sit in the shade or enter a cozy, authentic Ukrainian house. Let's get the journey started!

Steep hills, wide fields, creaking mills and churches, and cozy Ukrainian farmhouses are all imbued with the spirit of a rich Ukrainian history. 

Shevchenko Grove, or Lviv Scansen, is an open-air museum founded in 1971. The museum features micro-villages of Boykivshchyna, Lemkivshchyna, Hutsulshchyna, Bukovyna, Pokuttya, Podillia, Zakarpattya, and Lviv's ethnographic regions.

Wrapped on both sides of the wide Dnipro River, Khortytsia Island rises above a river and is surrounded by rocks and sandy shores.

On the outskirts of Pereyaslav, there is the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in the Middle Naddnipryanshchyna. Among the singing of birds and rustling leaves and the shadows of tall perennial trees, there are monuments of folk architecture from the XVIII-XIX centuries.

Behind the thick trees at the mouth of the Lybid River, there is a small Ukrainian village, the Mamayeva Sloboda Museum. In the center of the architectural ensemble that consists of 98 units, there is a Cossack three-domed wooden church. 

The historical and architectural complex, "The Residence of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi," was built on the site of the former capital of Hetman Ukraine in the middle of the 17th century — the glorious city of Chyhyryn.

One of the first open-air museums in Ukraine is located in the historic part of Uzhhorod on the southern slope of Castle Hill, beneath the walls of a medieval castle.