This traditional Ukrainian Flower crown was made using paper, foil, wax, and wire, and techniques such as cutting, and encaustic, which is hot wax painting. Crowns such as this one were worn by women of marital age to represent purity.
This oil folk painting on fabric by Jarmolenko Panas displays a young woman wearing a traditional “Vinok” flower crown. These crowns were worn by women of marital age to signify purity.
This necklace was crafted with a cotton thread and painted beads. It was believed that objects such as this had a positive effect on a woman's health and beauty.
A five-domed, two-story church made of stone with a faceted apse constructed between 1908-1909. After a fire in 2022, restoration on the church began and it was restored to its original appearance in 2011.
A video featuring items in the collections of the Irpin Museum of Local History in Irpin, Kyiv Oblast. Collections were begun by local teacher Oleksiǐ Mykolaǐovych Perederiǐ and his students in 1977 and the museum was formally founded by the city in 1985.
Five bells suspended from a beam in the church of St. Simeon Stylites, located in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. The stone church was constructed between 1908-1909, spent part of its life as a village club, then passed back into the hands of the parish in 1992 and was restored beginning in 2002 after a fire.
