Ukrainian Folk decorative Art Museum

(Education and fun)

Where: Lavrska str., bld.29

Opening hours: The Museum is open from 10 to 18 hours, closed on Tuesdays.

Prices:

Ticket price: for a student – 3 UAH; for an adult and 1-3 children – 20 UAH.
The cost of the survey and thematic excursions – 40 UAH  for a group

 

The 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 . 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. 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 ХІХ —  first half of XX century representing all regions of Ukraine. Especially valuable objects, both from the historical and artistic viewpoints, are wooden carved silver-mounted cross of 1576, clay glazed tiles of ХV  — ХVІІІ centuries, Kozak(Cossack) tobacco-pipes and powder-flasks of ХVІІІ — ХІХ centuries, silk woven sashes of ХVІІІ century, embroidered in gold and silver canonicals items of ХVІІІ century, "guta" (a traditional glass workshop in the 16th - 19th centuries) glassware of ХVІ — ХVІІІ centuries, production of leading Ukrainian porcelain and faience enterprises of ХVІІІ — ХІХ centuries: Kyevo-Mezhighirskaya faience factory and Volokitinsky porcelain works.

This museum is very interesting for kids primarily for its excursions with elements of games, quizzes and competitions that will surely interest children. In particular, the Museum offers various guided tours-contests..

Also at the weekends you can attend workshops of weaving and petrikovskaya painting.