Ukrainian Museum
Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 40 ″ N , 73 ° 59 ′ 23 ″ W.
Entrance to the Ukrainian Museum |
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place | New York City , United States |
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architect | George Sawicki |
opening | 1976 |
management |
Maria Shust
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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 .
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Ukrainian avant-garde in New York in Voice of America, August 29, 2015; accessed on February 4, 2017
- ↑ a b website of the museum-about ; accessed on February 4, 2017
- ↑ a b website of the museum building ; accessed on February 4, 2017