Київська фортеця

The National Center for Folk Culture “Ivan Honchar Museum” is an open cultural and artistic institution of educational, scientific and recreational type, which promotes the continuity of experience and knowledge in the field of traditional folk culture. The museum was founded on the basis of a private collection and the principles of the artist and ethnographer Ivan Honchar's work. The museum is located in the center of Kyiv on one of its picturesque hills above the Dnipro River. The main exhibition is closed for reconstruction. However, the museum promotes traditional culture through various platforms, including many digital initiatives: part of the museum collection is available online, and there are online exhibitions. Top 5 exhibits: Crimean Zaporozhets. Cossack Mamai, by an unknown author. XVIII - first half of the XIX centuryPoltava region. Velykobahachanskyi district, Ostapie village Oil on canvas 77 x 131 Icon “St. Stephen, Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and John the Theologian, St. Barbara” second half of the nineteenth century Provenance unknown Oil on canvas 61.4 x 142.5 A woman's wedding dress. XIX - early XX centuries Poltava region, Myrhorod district Towel “monk” embroidered with red and black threads second half of the nineteenth century Cherkasy region, Chyhyryn district, Shabelnyky village Woven hemp cloth, backing; towel seams 297 x 43 Ceramic bowl 1920s-30s Khmelnytskyi region, Dunayevets district, Smotrych village Clay, glaze, angobes; potter's wheel, painted h=10.2; d2=29.3; d=10.3

The museum was established in 1999 in a restored building dating back to the late 18th century on Knyaziv Ostrozkykh Street in Pechersk. Its exposition is dedicated to the history and heritage of our countrymen who lived outside Ukraine, starting with the first Ukrainian immigrants in the late nineteenth century. The museum has temporary thematic projects and a permanent exhibition, updated in 2021. Today, the collection includes about 10 thousand items. Much of the material was donated by archival institutions and private collectors from Canada, the United States, and Australia. Here you can learn about: foreign communities that fought for the restoration of Ukrainian statehood, such as the Ukrainian National Association in Canada, the World Congress of Ukrainians, Plast, etc; prominent personalities, such as Pavlo and Danylo Skoropadsky, Mykola Plavyuk, Markiyan Paslavsky, etc; artists and scientists: David Burliuk, the Krychevsky dynasty, Serge Lifar, Oleksandr Koshyts, and others. The museum also hosts Ukraine's only large-scale historical and memorial exhibition project, Our Sikorsky, which features copies of his first and subsequent helicopter and airplane models, including the BIS-2. It was in this helicopter that Ihor Sikorsky first took to the Kyiv sky.