Opishne 200 Years — From Peasant Craft to National Centre
The museum launches a cycle of six lectures on the two-hundred-year history of Opishne pottery — from peasant workshops of the 1830s to the modern national museum-reserve.
In February 2026 the Opishne Museum opens a new lecture cycle 'Opishne 200 Years — From Peasant Craft to National Centre'. Six lectures, held every Thursday during February-March, cover the chronology of Opishne pottery from the 1830s to the present. Among the topics: 'Opishne in the 19th Century — Peasant Workshop as Economic Unit', 'Olena Pchilka (1849-1930) as the First Scientific Researcher of Opishne Pottery', 'Soviet Period — Mass Factory and Craft Preservation', '1986 — Founding of the Museum-Reserve as an Act of Cultural Elevation', 'Modern Period — Between Tradition and Experiment'.
A separate lecture in the cycle is dedicated to Olena Pchilka (Olha Drahomanova-Kosach, 1849-1930) — Ukrainian ethnographer, writer, mother of Lesya Ukrainka, who at the end of the 19th century conducted field expeditions to the Opishne region and published the first scientific articles on regional pottery in the almanac 'Pershyi Vinok' and other publications. Programme lecturers — art historians of the Opishne Museum, ethnographers of the Rylsky Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology of the NAS of Ukraine, historians of the Korolenko Poltava National University. Lectures are broadcast online.
