Calendar holidays and rituals – a complex folklore system combining rational experience with religious and magical beliefs.

The traditions of folk holidays, while formally aligned with the annual liturgical cycle of the Orthodox Church, were in fact based on the agricultural calendar. The annual agrarian cycle consisted of winter, spring, summer, and autumn holidays, rites, and customs. Among these, winter/Christmas-New Year and spring/Easter celebrations were observed the most.

How many dishes should be on the Christmas Eve table and why? What do Didukh and kutia symbolize? When did our ancestors celebrate the New Year? What does the Malanka tradition symbolize? What were the Easter traditions, and how does a pysanka differ from a krashanka? What is the purpose of ornamenting an Easter egg? You will find answers to these and other questions by visiting the museum.

The exhibition halls feature everyday and sacred-religious items, including a model of a church built without a single nail; a Christmas table; masks and costumes of Bukovynian Malanka; pysanky (both traditional and souvenir), adorned with various types of ornaments – solar, sacred, geometric, floral, zoomorphic; and icons from the late 19th – first half of the 20th century, which depict specific important events of the church year.