Ukrainian Museum
The Ukrainian Museum, founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in New York City,[1] is the largest museum of its kind outside of Ukraine and is dedicated to the enjoyment, understanding, and preservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of Ukraine. For centuries Ukraine has been an epicenter for creative output — from traditional music, dance, and folk art to the birthplace of modern art and cinema. Today, the country celebrates its cultural impact on the world for people of all backgrounds. The museum's building was designed by Ukrainian-American architect George Sawicki of Sawicki Tarella Architecture + Design in New York City, and was funded by the Ukrainian-American community.[citation needed] The museum is located at 222 East 6th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan.
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The museum's collection falls into three primary groupings, "folk art", which includes festive and ritual attire and other items of clothing, ceramics, metalwork and carved wood items, as well as Ukrainian Easter eggs (pysanky); "fine arts", including paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic works by noted Ukrainian artists such as the primitive artist Nikifor, Mykhailo Moroz, Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, Mykhailo Chereshnovsky, Alexander Archipenko, Peter Kapschutschenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Oleksa Nowakiwsky, Ivan Trush, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Liuboslaw Hutsaliuk, Bohdan Borzemsky, Ilona Sochynsky, Arcadia Olesnka-Petryshyn and Edward Kozak, among many others; and items documenting the history and cultural legacy of Ukrainian immigration to the United States, including photographs, personal correspondence, posters, flyers and playbills, stamps and coins.[2]
For over 45 years, the museum has worked to promote Ukraine's rich cultural heritage abroad, featuring regular exhibitions often drawing from its own collection of traditional folk costumes, textiles, rare books, stamps, woodworking and photographs and contemporary art.[3] The museum regularly publishes catalogs documenting their scholarship. Since the Revolution of Dignity, the museum has hosted several exhibits documenting the ongoing war.[4]
Directors
- Maria Shust, 1976 - 2022[5]
- Peter Doroshenko, 2022 - present[6]
References
- ^ "About The Museum". www.theukrainianmuseum.org. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Ukrainian Museum website
- ^ TV, UA (2017-12-18). "How one highly acclaimed New York museum preserves Ukrainians' heritage in the USA". Euromaidan Press. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- ^ NYC-ARTS | The Ukrainian Museum | NYC-ARTS News: February 15–22 | Season 2018 | Episode 379 | PBS. Retrieved 2024-07-24 – via www.pbs.org.
- ^ UNWLA, Communications (2022-06-19). "UNWLA - Ukrainian National Womens League Of America | The Ukrainian Museum In New York Celebrates Its 45th Birthday". UNWLA - Ukrainian National Womens League of America. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
- ^ Jacobs, Harrison (2022-09-23). "Ukrainian Museum in New York Appoints Peter Doroshenko as New Director". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
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