Museum

Ivan Honchar Museum — Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture

Kyiv

Ivan Honchar Museum — Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture — is a national institution founded in 1993 in Kyiv based on the private ethnographic collection of Ivan Honchar (1911-1993), a prominent Ukrainian sculptor and ethnographer. For over four decades, Honchar travelled all regions of Ukraine collecting authentic folk-culture artifacts — from Carpathian trembitas to Podillia rugs, from Polissia vyshyvankas to Sloboda painted chests. The collection now holds over fifteen thousand exhibits. In the context of Ukrainian culinary culture, the exposition's special value lies in its rich section of traditional tableware and kitchen utensils: clay pots and makitras from Honcharivka and Opishne, wooden spoons and varivky, copper cauldrons, stone querns, bread-baking moulds, festive korovai chests. A separate hall is devoted to folk attire for table-rituals: tablecloths, rushnyky, ceremonial cloths, festive accessories. The museum regularly hosts ethnographic schools and culinary master classes with traditional preparation technologies.