Ukrainian Museum

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Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 40 ″  N , 73 ° 59 ′ 23 ″  W.

Ukrainian Museum
Ukrainian Museum sunny morn jeh.jpg
Entrance to the Ukrainian Museum
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place New York City , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Art
architect George Sawicki
opening 1976
management
Maria Shust
Website

The Ukrainian Museum ( English Ukrainian Museum, Ukrainian Український музей ) is a folklore and art museum in New York , United States . The museum was founded in 1976 on the initiative of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America .

building

In 2005 the museum moved to a new, donated building at 222 East Sixth Street in the Ukrainian District of the East Village in Manhattan .

The architect of the State of the Art building with a total area of ​​25,000 m² was the Ukrainian-American architect George Sawicki. In addition to the exhibition rooms, the building also houses staff offices, work rooms for courses and workshops, a research library, an auditorium for cultural, artistic and social events as well as a conference room, a gift shop and a café .

An exhibition room of the museum

collection

The museum contains three collections:

  • A folk art collection that, with over 8000 exhibits, is one of the most important ethnographic collections outside of Ukraine
  • The art collection of Ukrainian artists, mainly from the 20th century, which contains around 2000 paintings, drawings, graphics and sculptures. These include pieces by Nikifor , Alexander Archipenko , Oleksa Nowakiwskyj , Ivan Trusch and Jacques Hnizdovsky as well as what is probably the largest collection of paintings and watercolors by the Ukrainian artist and architect Vasyl Krychevskyj .
  • The museum archive with more than 30,000 exhibits such as photographs, documents and personal correspondence of well-known people, which document the life, history and cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people. There is also an extensive coin collection here

Web links

Commons : Ukrainian Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ukrainian avant-garde in New York in Voice of America, August 29, 2015; accessed on February 4, 2017
  2. ↑ a b website of the museum-about ; accessed on February 4, 2017
  3. ↑ a b website of the museum building ; accessed on February 4, 2017