The Ukrainian Museum

The Ukrainian Museum

The Ukrainian Museum is the largest museum in the U.S. committed to acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting articles of artistic or historic significance to the rich cultural heritage of Ukrainians. It was founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America (UNWLA). Each year, the Museum organizes several exhibitions, publishes accompanying bilingual catalogues, and conducts a wide range of public programming, frequently in collaboration with other museums, educational institutions, and cultural centers.

In 2005 the Museum moved into a new facility in Manhattan's East Village at 222 East 6th Street (it was previously located at 203 Second Avenue, between 11th and 12th Sts.). The new building was designed by Ukrainian American architect George Sawicki of Sawicki Tarella Architecture + Design in New York City. It was funded principally by the Ukrainian American community.

Collections

The Museum’s holdings are grouped into three main categories:

The folk art collection, with more than 8,000 objects, is one of the most important collections outside of Ukraine. It features wedding and festive attire from various regions of Ukraine, ritual cloths ("rushnyky") and kilims, and a broad selection of richly embroidered and woven textiles. This unique collection also includes ceramics, metalwork, and decorative wood-carved objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, the Museum holds an impressive collection of "pysanky", or Ukrainian Easter eggs.

The fine arts collection consists of some 2,000 paintings, drawings, graphic works, and sculptures by noted Ukrainian artists who worked in Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, primarily in the 20th century. It includes one of the most important collections of works by the well-known primitif artist Nikifor, probably the largest collection of paintings and watercolors by the artist and architect Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, and nearly all the works created in the United States by the sculptor Mykhailo Chereshnovsky. The collection also features works by Alexander Archipenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Oleksa Nowakiwsky, Ivan Trush, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Mykhailo Moroz, Luboslaw Hutsaliuk, and Edward Kozak, among many others.

The Museum’s archives boast more than 30,000 items — photographs, documents, the personal correspondence of noted individuals, playbills, posters, flyers, and the like, all documenting the life, history, and cultural legacy of the Ukrainian people. The history of Ukrainian immigration to the United States, which dates back well over 100 years, is chronicled in the Museum’s rich collection of archival photographs. Among the Museum’s archives are an extensive numismatic collection that includes a 9th century silver [http://www.bank.gov.ua/engl/bank_coin/histor_grn.htm "hryvnia"] , 16th century coins, and Ukrainian currency from the early 20th century to the present; the philatelic collection contains items from the first quarter of the 20th century to the present.

External links

* [http://www.brama.com/cgi-bin/webdata_um.cgi?bramaclient=UM&cgifunction=Search Ukrainian Museum Web Calendar]
* [http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ The Ukrainian Museum website]


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