Ukrainian Museum
.jpg) Museum's façade (2021) | |
  Ukrainian Museum Location within Lower Manhattan | |
| Established | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Location | East Village, Manhattan, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°43′40″N 73°59′23″W / 40.72772°N 73.98975°W |
| Type | Heritage museum |
| Founder | Ukrainian National Women's League of America |
| Director | Peter Doroshenko |
| President | Chryzanta Hentisz |
| Curator | Kalyna Boychuk |
| Architect | George Sawicki |
| Public transit access | MTA bus line M103 |
| Website | www |
The Ukrainian Museum, founded in 1976 by the
East 6th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan
.
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, Mykhailo Moroz, Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, Mykhailo Chereshnovsky, Alexander Archipenko, Peter Kapschutschenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Oleksa Nowakiwsky, Ivan Trush, Jacques Hnizdovsky, 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.[2]
References
- ^ "About The Museum". www.theukrainianmuseum.org. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
- ^ Ukrainian Museum website
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