Ukrainian Museum

Ukrainian Museum
	Museum's façade
	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.theukrainianmuseum.org

The Ukrainian Museum, founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in New York City,^[1] 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 community.^{[citation needed]} The museum is located at 222 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[edit]

^ "About The Museum". www.theukrainianmuseum.org. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
^ Ukrainian Museum website

External links[edit]

Official website

[1] "About The Museum". www.theukrainianmuseum.org. Retrieved 24 March 2023.

[website-2] Ukrainian Museum website

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