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Announcements and newsAn exhibition “Out of…”, in which graphic arts, ceramics and plastic sculpture by Alexander Milovzorov are to be put on display, is due to open June, 8, at the National museum of Ukrainian folk decorative art. The exhibition will be on show till the 30 th of July, 2012.
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he Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art Museum is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the grounds of the National Kyiv-Pechersk historico-cultural preserve and is housed in the former Metropolitan's residence and the adjacent Annunciation church (ÕV²²² – beginning of ÕÕ century).
The museum collection was established in 1899 as part of the collection of the newly founded City Antiquity and Art Museum, which was renamed in 1904 the "Kyiv Art, Industry and Science Museum". Now the reserves and displays of the museum contain over 75,000 artifacts of Ukrainian traditional folk and professional decorative art dating from XV century to present days. Many of them are household and domestic articles varied in material, shape, decoration, and purpose which talented craftsmen had turned into highly artistic items inhering the wealth of regional specificities. Art works created by professional artisans demonstrate implementation of established folk traditions in their creative concepts. The museum permanent exhibition which totals some 1,500 sq. m. represents all types of Ukrainian folk art: carpet weaving, weaving, print, embroidery, ceramics, wood carving and painting, artistic leatherwork, horn and metal work, glassware, porcelain, Easter egg painting ("pysankarstvo"), folk painting and iconography. The pride of the Museum is its extensive collection of Ukrainian folk costumes of Õ²Õ
first half of XX century representing all regions of Ukraine, in which are synthesized folk
arts of style, sewing, weaving, embroidery, applique, print, wicker-work, artistic leatherwork
and metalwork.
Deserve attention traditional trappings: “duckachs” (necklaces with coins as lockets), coral and Venetian
glass beads, beadwork.
Especially valuable objects, both from the historical and artistic viewpoints, are wooden carved
silver-mounted cross of 1576, clay glazed tiles of ÕV
ÕV²²² centuries, Kozak(Cossack) tobacco-pipes and powder-flasks of ÕV²²² Õ²Õ centuries,
silk woven sashes of ÕV²²² century, embroidered in gold and silver canonicals items of ÕV²²² century,
"guta" (a traditional glass workshop in the 16th - 19th centuries) glassware of ÕV² ÕV²²² centuries, production of leading Ukrainian porcelain
and faience enterprises of ÕV²²² Õ²Õ centuries:
Kyevo-Mezhighirskaya faience factory and Volokitinsky porcelain works.
The Museum possesses the Ukraine's largest collection of works by Marija Primachenko (1909 1997), which includes
more than 500 fabulous and fantastic paintings.
Numerous temporary exhibitions feature works by contemporary artisans as well as the exhibits
stored in the Museum's repositaries.
Address: 01015, Kyiv, 9 Lavrska str., bld. 29;
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