The museum is located in a one-storey building, the first private house of Olha Kobylyanska — a prominent Ukrainian writer. The museum exposition represents the materials about her life, creative work and public activities.

Two rooms in the house are memorial — the bedroom and the study. There are personal things of the writer, her furniture here. One can feel the atmosphere of that period.

Olha Kobylyanska was born in 1863, November 27 in Gura-Humora in Southern Bukovyna (now it is located in Suceava County, Romania) in the family of a minor administration worker. When a child, besides a proficiency in German she spoke Ukrainian as well as Polish. She spent her childhood and youth in Gura-Humora, Suceava, Kimpolung. Later she moved to Dymka village, and in 1891 — to Chernivtsi. She wrote her first works in German, beginning in 1880.

Since 1890-s she wrote in Ukrainian. O. Kobylyanska is the author of a great amount of stories, tales and essays about intelligentsia life. She worked as a translater, too.

9:00-17:00, closed on Tuesday.

Adults — 20 UAH.
Students — 10 UAH.
Children — 10 UAH.

Adults — 60 UAH.
Students — 30 UAH.
Children — 30 UAH.

Chernivtsi city
S. Okunevska St. 5

Теl.: +38 (0372) 52-56-44

By public transport
Go by train or by bus to Chernivtsi. From the city centre walk along O. Kobylyanska street to the crossing with T. Shevchenko street, then turn to the left. Then follow the second turn to the right (I. Tobilevych street). Go down G. Dymytrov street. The museum is on the left.
Detailed information about public transport.

By car
In Chernivtsi go along Holovna street, turn to L. Kobylytsya street. Then follow the third turn to the left (P. Hulak-Artemovsky street), and turn to the left. Go along G. Dymytrov street to the museum (on the right side of the street).