Ivan Honchar Museum
 The Ivan Honchar Museum in 2013 |
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| place | Kiev , Ukraine |
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| opening | 1993 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 35,000 |
| management |
Petro Ivanovych Honchar
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The Ivan Honchar Museum or Ukrainian Center of Folk Culture ( Ukrainian Український центр народної культури "Музей Івана Гончара" ) is a folklore museum and a public research cultural and educational institution in the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
The museum is in pecherskyi district in the Lawrskastraße ( Лаврська вулиця ) 19 in the region of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery . It is named after Ivan Honchar (1911–1993), a Ukrainian sculptor, painter, collector and ethnographer , people 's artist of the USSR in 1991.
History of the museum
Shortly after Leonid Kravchuk was elected President of Ukraine in 1991, he met with Ivan Honchar to discuss the creation of a state museum based on his collection. Kravchuk suggested, among other things, that the former governor-general's estate be used for this purpose. By resolution of the President № 6 / 0114-14-3 of December 18, 1991, the outcome of the meeting on the establishment of the museum in the Governor General's building was determined, and shortly after the death of Ivan Honchar in 1993 the museum was established.
History of the building
The museum is housed on the site of the former Kiev fortress in the building complex of the Governor General of the General Government of Kiev. The building is an architectural monument of the 18th – 19th centuries. Century and was built between 1757 and 1762 by the architect Semen Antonowytsch Karin ( Семен Антонович Карін ) (1733-1797). After large parts of the building fell victim to a fire in 1782, it was rebuilt in 1806-1809. During the Soviet era, the house was used as a warehouse and dormitory for military personnel, among other things. In 1979 the central building of the estate was declared a Monument of National Importance.
collection
The extensive collection of Ukrainian folk culture that Honjar gathered from various eras and areas on his travels through Ukraine since the 1950s became the foundation of the museum.
The museum today contains 15,000 exhibits of folk art with artistic and ethnographic value, dating from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Of these, 2,700 are textiles, embroidery, carpets and cloths and around 700 ceramics. There is also a collection of folk musical instruments ( bandura , kobsa , hurdy-gurdy, etc.) and 100 paintings by famous Ukrainian artists, including famous Cossack Mamajs and many paintings by Ivan Honchar. In addition, the museum has an Easter egg collection with 500 copies, various carvings, over 1000 iconic pictures and a library with 2,750 volumes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the museum on the museum's website ; accessed on March 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ^ History of the building on the museum's website ; accessed on March 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ page about the museum on kievtown.net ; accessed on March 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ newspaper report of the istpravda on Ivan Honchar ; accessed on March 17, 2014 (Ukrainian)
Remarks
- ↑ The Ukrainian language Wikipedia has an article on Ivan Honchar under Гончар Іван Макарович
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 56 ″ N , 30 ° 33 ′ 28 ″ E