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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian N ational W om en’s League o f America VOL. XLIII OCTOBER 1986 Editor: Marta Baczynsky The Ukrainian Museum, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, was founded in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Inc. with the aim of preserving the rich cultural heritage of the large Ukrainian-American community in the United States. Now, an independent institution with an absolute charter granted by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, the Museum has a wide ranging national membership and is considered one of the most interesting small museums of New York City. The Museum is a member of the American Association of Museums, the Northeastern Museum Association, the Inter national Council of Museums, and often serves as host for specialized museum workshops organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the past ten yers a number of major exhibitions, dealing with many aspects of Ukrainian culture, have been organized at the Museum, accom panied by bilingual illustrated catalogues and hand-out brochures. The core of the Museum’s Ukrainian folk art collection, numbering ap proximately seven hundred artifacts in 1976, has grown over the past decade to more than three thousand items, both through donations and purchases, and is presently the largest documented collection of its type in the United States. Two comprehensive exhibitions of folk art have been organized: one permanently displayed at the Museum and another designed to travel. The traveling exhibit had its inauguration at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, where it opened in 1984 to great acclaim. In 1985 it was exhibited at the Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, N.J. and plans are under way for its viewing in other cities. The Museum’s other collections consist of a historical department, a numismatic collection and a genealogical section. Two major exhibitions dealing with historical subjects — “The Lost Architecture of Kiev” and “To Preserve a Heritage: The Story of the Ukrainian Immigration in the United States” — have also been mounted at the Museum. Both subsequently became traveling exhibits, with the “Kiev” exhibit having journeyed to nine major cities in the United States and Canada. The newly formed department of fine arts consists at present of over five hundred paintings and drawings and is rapidly growing as a result of donations from collectors and artists. The Museum’s mission is also one of education. To this end the educa tional department organizes biannual courses and workshops in the most popular traditional Ukrainian crafts, conducts tours for adults as well as groups of school children, and sponsors lectures. Since its founding the Museum’s financial backing has come from its membership, many generous contributors, as well as grants from govern ment and private funding agencies. Other sources of income have been various fundraising events such as receptions and concerts with the gener ous participation of renowned Ukrainian-American artists in such world- class auditoriums as Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Perform ing Arts. Having concluded an exciting first decade of growth and development, The Ukrainian Museum now faces the challenge of building a representative facility to house the treasures of our rich and beautiful cultural heritage. We are confident that the Ukrainian-American community will help us meet this challenge through its magnanimous support. 23
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