Photo: Kateryna Czartorysky
Three collection areas study, exhibit, and care for the objects in The Ukrainian Museum’s collection.
The folk art collection, with more than 8,000 objects, is one of the most important collections outside of Ukraine. It features wedding and festive attire from various regions of Ukraine, rushnyky (ritual cloths) and kilims, and embroidered and woven textiles. This collection also includes ceramics, metalwork, and decorative wood-carved objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, the Museum holds a collection of pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs).
The collection of 19th, 20th and 21st century art consists of some 3,000 paintings, drawings, graphic works, and sculptures by noted Ukrainian artists who worked in Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. It includes a grouping of important works by the well-known outsider artist Nikifor, paintings and watercolors by the artist and architect Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, and works by the sculptor Mykhailo Chereshnovsky. The collection also features artworks by Alexander Archipenko, David Burliuk, Sonia Delaunay, Alexandra Exter, Alexis Gritchenko, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Luboslaw Hutsaliuk, Edward Kozak, Mykhailo Moroz, and Oleksa Novakivsky, among many others.
The Museum’s archives boast more than 30,000 items – photographs, documents, the personal correspondence of noted individuals, playbills, posters, flyers – all documenting the life, history, and cultural legacy of the Ukrainian people. The history of Ukrainian immigration to the United States, which dates back to the late 1800s, is chronicled in the Museum’s archival photographs. The Museum’s archives also include numismatic and philatelic collections.
