The Ukrainian national museum of folk decorative arts
The Ukrainian national museum of folk decorative arts is one of the biggest arts museums in Ukraine. The museum is situated at the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersky national historical-cultural heritage site in the buildings of the St. Blagoveshinskaya church, which are the monuments of the end of ХVІІІ century - the beginning of ХХ century.
A collection of museum was started in 1899 as a part of the collection of the newly created City museum of old things and arts, which was re-named as the Kyiv decorative arts research museum in 1904.
At present time, the museum’s collection has over the 75 thousand traditional amateur and professional decorative arts creations made since ХV century up to our days. For instance, the high art things in the form of the different materials/forms/decorations home use items, created by the hands of talented masters. All of them have the clearly identified differences.
A complete set of the Ukrainian traditional folk arts: the ceramics, carpet weeding, weaving, stamping, embroidery, wood carving and painting, artistic skin/rog/metal treatment, glass, porcelain, Easter egg painting, folk painting and iconography are presented in the museum’s exhibition, which takes around the 1500 square meters.
The museum has one of largest collections of the folk craft-men-made ceramics in Ukraine – over the 14 thousand exhibition things. A collection of ceramic things from Podolia has a special place. For example, the unique things of the Bar ceramics: the thematic plates created by Mr. Pavel Samolovich, Mr. Peter Manita, Mr. Philip Lukashenko and by some others. Among other things, the Bar’s pitchers, cans, and unique anthropomorphic jug with a head of man can be distinguished. The scientific researches, restoration works and preservations of valuable art pieces for the next generations are conducted at the museum.
The exhibits of the museum are presented on our website
A bowl with the colorful engobes lines decoration and transporent glaze cover (the Ukrainian flyandrivka)
Exhibit number: ВС0222en
1920-s
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A platter with the colorful engobes lines decoration and transporent glaze cover (the Ukrainian flyandrivka)
Exhibit number: ВС0221en
1920-s
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A platter with the colorful engobes lines decoration and transporent glaze cover (the Ukrainian flyandrivka)
Exhibit number: ВС0220en
1920-s
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A platter with the colorful engobes lines decoration and transporent glaze cover (the Ukrainian flyandrivka)
Exhibit number: ВС0218en
1920-s
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A platter with the colorful engobes lines decoration and transporent glaze cover (the Ukrainian flyandrivka)
Exhibit number: ВС0214en
1920-s
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