Within the town hall lurks the Soviet-era Regional Museum, which has displays on various archaeological digs in the region, a worthwhile room of folk art from the Carpathians, exhibitions relating to the history of Ivano-Frankivsk and a whole wing of goggle-eyed taxidermy.
Regional Museum
The Carpathians
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