The Ukrainian Museum in
New York City
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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
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community. The museum is located at 222
East 6th Street between
Second Avenue and
Cooper Square
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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
Nikifor (21 May 1895, Krynica, Austria-Hungary – 10 October 1968, Folusz, Poland), also known as Nikifor Krynicki, born as Epifaniy Drovnyak (Epifaniusz Drowniak) 1, was a Lemko naïve painter. Nikifor painted over 40,000 pictures – on s ...
,
Mykhailo Moroz,
Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky,
Mykhailo Chereshnovsky,
Alexander Archipenko
Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American ...
,
Peter Kapschutschenko
Peter Kapschutschenko, also referred to as Petro Kapschutschenko or Pedro Enko; (1915-2006) was a Ukrainian and American avant-garde artist and sculptor. Among his many works are the bronze monuments of Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky and St. Olga ...
, Alexis Gritchenko, Oleksa Nowakiwsky,
Ivan Trush
Ivan Trush ( uk, Іван Труш, pronounced as ''Troosh'': 1869–1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Impressionism, impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia (C ...
,
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Jacques Hnizdovsky ( uk, Яків Гніздовський,
pl, Jakub Gniazdowski, hr, Jakiv Hnizdovskij), (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic
designer, illustrator and sculptor.
Biography
Jacques Hnizdovs ...
, Liuboslaw Hutsaliuk, 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.
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References
External links
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Official website
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Museums of Ukrainian culture abroad
Ethnic museums in New York City
Arts organizations of the Ukrainian diaspora
Society museums in New York (state)
Folk art museums and galleries in New York (state)
Art museums and galleries in New York City
Museums in Manhattan
Ukrainian museums in the United States
Ukrainian-American culture in New York City
Art museums established in 1973
1973 establishments in New York City