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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF THE DZIEDUSZYCKI MUSEUM: HISTORY OF FORMATION

HORBAN Iryna

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2626-9521
  • Candidate of Philological Sciences (Ph.D.), 
  • Associate Professor, Senior Researcher 
  • at the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts of the Ethnology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: ir.horban@gmail.com

Abstract. The article is devoted to one of the little-studied ethnographic collections that operated in Lviv at the end of the 19th — the first third of the 20th century — the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum. This collection was created thanks to the efforts and enthusiasm of Count Volodymyr Didushytsky with the active cooperation of the well-known Ukrainian ethnographer Volodymyr Shukhevych.

The period of the greatest flowering of the collection falls on the beginning of the 20th century, when the reorganization of the museum exposition took place. After the occupation of Lviv by Soviet troops at the beginning of World War II, the ethnographic collection was removed from the Didushytsky Museum, which was liquidated by the new authorities. As a result of several relocations and changes in the institutional subordination of institutions, it ended up in the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts (now the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the NAS of Ukraine), where it is currently stored in various fund groups. Modern researchers mention it mainly in the context of research into the history of Lviv museum.

The purpose of the article is to collect and systematize information from all available sources, which will allow forming a holistic idea of the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum. The prerequisites for the creation of this collection and the stages of forming an ethnographic exposition are highlighted for the first time. The contribution of the famous Ukrainian ethnographer Volodymyr Shukhevych to the development and replenishment of the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum, in particular, the formation of the Hutsul collection, is indicated.

The importance of establishing the provenance of monuments from the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum in the modern collections of the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is emphasized.

The relevance of the research is due to the need to study the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum as one of the centers of preservation of the Ukrainian historical and cultural heritage and the lack of publications devoted to this issue. The source base of the research consists of individual works (catalogs, guidebooks) and articles published in periodicals of the late 19th century, which have become a bibliographical rarity and are difficult to access for modern researchers, as well as a number of archival documents and photographic materials, which are an additional source for recreating the history of the ethnographic collection of the Didushytsky Museum and are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

Keywords: ethnographic collection, Dzieduszycki Museum, Wіodzimierz Dzieduszycki, Volodymyr Shukhevych, Lviv museums, museology, Lviv, Galicia.

Received 27.07.2025

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