Exhibits

While our new museum building is under construction, we are presenting small exhibits in our temporary gallery space, located next to the Center's library.

New Spaces - New Stories

The inaugural exhibit in our temporary gallery space gives a report on the museum building construction progress, and presents some of the new stories that we are now able to tell thanks to artworks and artifacts that have been recently donated to the museum.

Included are folk art and clothing, icons, pysanky (both traditional and modern), sculptures by Petro Kapschuchenko, design sketches by Vasyl' Krychevsky, paintings by Yukhym Mykhailiv, and much more.

The exhibit will be open 12-5pm during St. Thomas Sunday Weekend (May 11-12, 2013), and thereafter during normal library hours (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9am-5pm) or by appointment.

 

Online exhibits

 

Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook

A sampling of a series of 80 linocuts by Ukrainian artist Mykola Bondarenko (b. 1949) depicting the unbelievable “menu” that survivors of the Holodomor subsisted on.

 
 

Two post-war immigrant experiences

All of the post-World War II refugees who fled Ukraine in the mid 1940s ahead of the advancing Red Army had their tales of hardship and triumph. In this exhibit, we tell the stories of two similar, but at the same time very different refugee experiences.

 
 

The story behind "The Carol of the Bells"

How did a Ukrainian winter song arranged for chorus by Mykola Leontovych end up as the perennial American Christmas favorite "The Carol of the Bells"? The story involves an unlikely musical ensemble called the "Ukrainian National Chorus". Here we tell the story of the Chorus through archival materials from the collection of Fr. Mykola Kostets'kyi, who was a member of the Chorus in the 1920s.