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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

  • Received: 23.09.2026
  • Accepted: 28.09.2026
  • Published: ??.??.2026

SCIENTIFIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF THE NTSH MUSEUM IN THE CONTEXT OF RESEARCHING THE INSTITUTION’S NATIONAL HERITAGE

KLIMASHEVSKYI Andrii

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3038-4663
  • Candidate of Art Studies, Deputy Director
  • for Research and Museum Affairs,
  • Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: aklimashewskyi@gmail.com

Abstract. The article analyzes the scientific, cultural, museological, and social value of the largest part of the heritage of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) Museum — specifically, its ethnographic collection. This analysis is conducted within the framework of the grant project «The Cultural and Artistic National Phenomenon of the NTSh Museum Collection at the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Concepts and Practices of Public Representation» (Project Registration № 2025.07/0289), supported by the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU).

The aim of this article is to highlight the role of the NTSh Museum’s ethnographic collection as a nationwide phenomenon in Ukrainian museology during the late 19th and the first third of the 20th centuries.

The object of the study is the ethnographic collection of the NTSh Museum, as represented in the holdings and exhibition of the Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts (MEKhP) of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IE NASU).

The subject of the study is an analysis of the cultural and social significance of the ethnographic collection assembled by the Society.

The research methodology is based on the comprehensive application of various scientific methods, principles, and concepts.

Keywords: NTSh Museum, MEKhP IE NASU, scientific reconstruction, Shevchenko Scientific Society, ethnographic collection, museum space, pysanka.

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