Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora
Commemorative museum in Kyiv
50°26′03″N 30°32′41″E / 50.43417°N 30.54472°E / 50.43417; 30.54472 Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora (Ukrainian: Музей української діаспори, romanized: Muzei ukrainskoi diaspory), formerly known as Museum of Cultural Heritage,[a] is one of the museums in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to Ukrainian diaspora prominent representatives in different fields of human activities.
Currently, it is a branch of the Kyiv History Museum [uk].
It was created in May 1999. The museum is housed in an XVIIIth-century maison in the historical Kyiv area Pechersk.
Eight exposition rooms of the museum display the heritage, life, and activities of Ukrainians abroad.
On interest can be memorial rooms dedicated to the former Kyiv residents who became notable such as Serge Lifar (France), Igor Sikorsky, Vladimir Horowitz (both latter USA), and many others.[1] So, an interesting museum collection depicts the artistic life of the Krychevsky family, whose representatives were scattered throughout the world, including France, the United States and even Venezuela. For your kind attention are several pictures and sketches of Vasyl Krychevsky, the founder of the dynasty, and watercolors of Mykola Krychevsky and Kateryna Krychevska-Rosandich, as well as several works of Vasyl Krychevsky Jr.[2]
The museum has showrooms for regular, as well as the irregular memorial, artistic, documentary, and book exhibitions.
Notes
- ^ Ukrainian: Музей культурної спадщини, romanized: Muzei kulturnoi spadshchyny
References
External links
- Official webpage of Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora on Facebook
- Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora on Official website of the Museum of Kyiv history
- MUSEUM OF THE UKRAINIAN DIASPORA on bodnarchuk.com.ua
Sources
- Museums of Kyiv. Guidebook, 2005. - P. 71
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Museums in Kyiv, Ukraine
and galleries
- Ivan Honchar Museum
- Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine
- National Folk Decorative Art Museum
- Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art
- National Art Museum of Ukraine
- Kyiv Art Gallery [uk]
- PinchukArtCentre
- Mystetskyi Arsenal
- Kyiv City Teacher's House
- Kyiv History Museum [uk]
- National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide
- National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
- Museum of Soviet Occupation
- National Museum of the History of Ukraine
- National Museum-Preserve of Ukrainian military achievements
- Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum
- Victoria Museum
- The Museum of the History of Kyiv Transportation [uk]
- Exhibition of rolling stock of historical locomotives and wagons [uk]
- Ukraine State Aviation Museum
- Kyiv Subway Museum [uk]
- Golden Gate
- Kyiv Fortress
- Museum of the History of Life in Kyiv [uk]
- Mamayeva Sloboda [uk]
- Maria Zankovetska Museum [uk]
- Maxym Rylsky Museum
- Mikhail Bulgakov Museum
- Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture
- Museum of Ukrainian Diaspora
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum
- National Museum Taras Shevchenko
- One Street Museum
- Pavlo Tychyna Museum
- Pyrohiv
- Savka House
- State Museum of Toys
- Kyiv Pharmacy Museum [uk]
- Museum of Recycled Materials [uk]
- Kyiv Sewer Museum [uk]
- Kyiv Water Museum
- National Museum of Medicine of Ukraine [uk]
- Toilet History Museum
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