Museum
Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine
Kyiv
Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine is the country's oldest archive of scenic and performing arts, founded in 1923 in Kyiv. The museum occupies buildings 26-28 of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra historic complex and holds one of Eastern Europe's largest performing-arts collections — approximately two hundred and fifty thousand exhibits. The holdings include 19th-20th century theatre costumes, original posters, set designs by Anatol Petrytskyi and Vadym Meller, scores by Mykola Lysenko and Borys Lyatoshynsky, gramophone records from the 1900s-1980s, and silent-cinema equipment. Particularly significant are the personal archives of prominent figures: manuscripts and stage costumes of Lesya Ukrainka, concert attire and correspondence of Solomiya Krushelnytska, documents of Les Kurbas's directorial school and the Berezil Theatre, letters of Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The museum's research division publishes scholarly monographs on Ukrainian theatre history, hosts thematic exhibitions for classic anniversaries, and restores fragile exhibits in its own laboratories.
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Why the last wall is empty
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A poster of which a quarter survives
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Showing a sound that exists in no recording
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A stage model built from a single drawing
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A reconstruction show about Berezil: what to display when few objects remain
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VUFKU Cinema Club — Monthly Public Screenings of Ukrainian Silent Cinema
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The Executed Renaissance — Lecture Series on the Cultural Genocide of the 1930s
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Restoration of Ukrainian Silent Cinema — School of Film Archiving
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Kurbas Archive — 47 Letters and Scripts from the Canadian Diaspora
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103 Years of the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts — Updated Mission
