Ivan Honchar Museum

Museum of Ukrainian folk art in Kyiv, founded in 1993 – an important guardian of costumes, ceramics, and Ukrainian cultural heritage.

The Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv is a museum and research centre dedicated to Ukrainian folk culture, founded in 1993 by ceramicist and cultural activist Ivan Honchar, who opened his private collection of traditional Ukrainian objects to the public. The holdings include folk costumes, embroidery, ceramics, icons, and other evidence of Ukrainian folk life. The museum actively pursues research and educational programs, seeing itself as a guardian of cultural heritage. In the context of the ongoing war, it has taken on heightened symbolic importance as a place of Ukrainian identity preservation.