Museum

Kyiv Porcelain Heritage Museum

Kyiv

Kyiv Porcelain Heritage Museum preserves the legacy of the Kyiv Experimental Ceramic-Art Factory — one of the most significant centres of Ukrainian artistic porcelain in the 20th century. The factory operated from 1924 in the Podil district of Kyiv and produced porcelain figurines that became hallmarks of the Ukrainian decorative tradition: Cossacks, peasant dancers, characters from Mykola Hohol's works, ethnographic series from various regions. The museum collection holds over two thousand works by the factory's leading masters, including Oksana Zhnykrup (1931-1993) and Valentyna Trehubova (1929-1995). The exposition reveals the technological cycle: forming on plaster moulds, first bisque firing, glazing, hand-painting with overglaze colours, second firing in muffle kilns. A separate programme is devoted to tableware porcelain — tea and coffee services, dinnerware sets — that shaped the culture of Ukrainian home dining in the 1950s-1990s. The museum works to renew interest in Kyiv's porcelain heritage and collaborates with private collectors across Ukraine.