The National Folk Decorative Art Museum ( uk, Національний Музей українського народного декоративного мистецтва) is a

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dedicated to

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and

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Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

Background

The National Folk Decorative Art Museum is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the grounds of the

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra ( uk, Києво-Печерська лавра, translit=Kyievo-Pecherska lavra, russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Ea ...

and is housed in the former Metropolitan's residence and the adjacent House of the Annunciation. The basis of the museum's collection was formed by the Kyiv Society of Antiquities and Arts in 1899, as part of the newly founded City Antiquity and Art Museum. It was renamed in 1904 as the Kyiv Art, Industry and Science Museum, in 1924 the museum was renamed again as the All-Ukrainian Historical Museum named after Taras Shevchenko and ultimately as the

National Art Museum of Ukraine The National Art Museum of Ukraine ( uk, Національний Художній Музей України) is a museum dedicated to Ukrainian art in Kyiv, Ukraine. History The National Art Museum of Ukraine, which was the first museum in Ky ...

. However in 1954 the folk collections were separated from the central art collection, and in 1964 an independent museum of folk and decorative art opened. The museum's permanent exhibition galleries cover 1500 square metres.

Collections

The collection contains over 79,000 artefacts of Ukrainian traditional folk and professional decorative art, dating from 15th century today. The collection was formed to celebrate regional differences in folk art, which are expressed on many household and domestic objects. One of the most significant aspects of the museum's collection is its extensive holdings of Ukrainian folk costumes, dating from the nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries. A range of folk art styles and skills are demonstrated on these items, including specialist techniques of sewing, weaving, embroidery, applique, print, wicker-work, artistic leather work and metalwork. The museum possesses Ukraine's largest collection of works by Maria Prymachenko (1909–1997), which includes more than 650 paintings. It also includes works by the textile artist and embroiderer Hanna Veres, and the painter Hanna Sobachko-Shostak. There is also a gallery dedicated to the works of Kateryna Bilokur (1900–1961). The collection also includes the work of

Oksana Zhnikrup Oksana Zhnikrup, Ukrainian: Оксана Жнікруп (1931 - 1993) was a Ukrainian ceramicist, whose works are held in the collection of the National Folk Decorative Art Museum. The sculpture '' Seated Ballerina'' by Jeff Koons is closely in ...

, the rights to whose work were reputedly purchased by Jeff Koons. Other significant objects in the collection include a collection of duckachs (necklaces with coins as lockets), coral and Venetian glass beads and

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. The collection also includes a carved cross dating from 1576, tiles produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, silk sasges, Cossack tobacco-pipes and powder flask, religious vestments dating to the 1800s, early modern glassware and archived collections from both the Kyevo-Mezhighirskaya

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factory and Volokitinsky

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works.Титаренко, Анна
"Різновиди форм і декору тарілок старого українського фарфору Волині з колекції Національного музею українського народного декоративного мистецтва."
(2013).

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External links

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