Ivan Honchar Museum (''National Centre of Folk Culture'') is a museum in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
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,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
showcasing the
culture of Ukraine
The culture of Ukraine is the composite of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people that has formed throughout the history of Ukraine. It is closely intertwined with ethnic studies about ethnic Ukrainians and Ukrainian historiog ...
and preserving Ukrainian
folk
Folk or Folks may refer to:
Sociology
*Nation
*People
* Folklore
** Folk art
** Folk dance
** Folk hero
** Folk music
*** Folk metal
*** Folk punk
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* Folk taxonomy
Arts, entertainment, and media
* Folk Plus or Fo ...
art.
The museum was founded on a private collection of Ivan Makarovych Honchar shortly after his death in 1993. During the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
period, Ivan was accused of
nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
. Each individual showing an interest in his private collection was registered with the
KGB
The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...
.
The collection consists of over 15,000 items from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. A good example is a painting of the Ukrainian folklore hero
Cossack Mamay
Cossack Mamay (in less significant variants also named as Cossack banduryst, ua, Козак Мамай) is a Ukrainian folkloric hero, one of the standard characters in traditional Ukrainian itinerant puppet theater, the Vertep.
Overview
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. Other items include over 500 icons from the 16th century, 100 paintings by famous
Ukrainian artists, an impressive collection of over 2,500 items of textiles from the 18th and 19th centuries, pottery, toys, Easter eggs, wood carvings and Ukrainian folk music instruments. Another part of the museum consists of Honchar's private library with books containing material that had the possessor sent to prison during Soviet times.
The Museum is a living institution, not only a collection of exhibits. There are folk art studios, shops, a theatre of folk songs and folklore, Ukrainian cuisine hands-on classes and other courses.
The musician Oleh Skrypka, (frontman of
Vopli Vidopliassova
Vopli Vidopliassova ( uk, Воплі Відоплясова ), also shortened to VV (), is a Ukrainian rock band. It was created in 1986 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). The leader of the band is singer Ol ...
) each year organizes
vechornytsi
Vechornytsi ( uk, вечорниці, from '' вечір'' "evening") are Ukrainian traditional gatherings with music, songs, jokes and rituals.
''Vechornytsi'' traditionally began in late September after the seasonal agricultural work was over. ...
(gatherings) at the centre, which include folklore singing, dances, customs etc.
[''Oasis of Ukrainian culture — Ivan Honchar Museum, Welcome to Ukraine Magazine, April 2011'']
Gallery
References
External links
Ivan Honchar Museumwithin
Google Arts & Culture
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Art museums and galleries in Ukraine
Folk art museums and galleries
Institutions with the title of National in Ukraine