« 2025. # 4 (184)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 4 (184), 831—840

UДК: 39:069/014+069.8+061.22(045)(477.8)”18/19″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

ETNOGRAPHY IN THE MUSEUM AND PUBLIC SPACE OF GALICIA IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

KUSHNIR Vitalii

• ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8809-0108
• Candidate of Historical Science,
• Senior Research Fellow,
• Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts
• Of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
• 15, Svobody ave., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
• Contacts: e-mail: vitaliy_val@ukr.net

Abstract. The aim of the study is to determine the place of ethnography and ethnographic collections in the public life of the Galician lands of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including it in the cultural, primarily museum, as well as political and economic aspects. 

During this period, ethnography was established as an important component of the museum and exhibition space of Galicia. Ethnographic collections representing the traditional culture of the rural population of the region became part of the collections of a number of museum institutions. For the Ukrainian community of the imperial province, ethnography became an element of public manifestation of its national identity, and at the same time a means of national self-reflection in its cognitive, educational, and aesthetic aspects. The work on the formation of ethnographic collections in Ukrainian museums was one of the forms of self-organisation of the Ukrainian population, which had not only a Galician but also a nationwide dimension. The holding of ethnographic and agro-industrial exhibitions, of which ethnography was an integral part, was aimed at promoting traditional crafts in the conditions of rapid socio-economic change. 

The chronological framework of the work is defined by the period from the last third of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, when ethnography became important part of the museum space of the region, 

The methodological basis of the study, which is based on the principle of historicism, is formed by a combination of several methods of historical and museological research, including the comparative and typological methods. A set of methods for analysing sources, including visual ones, is also part of the methodological basis of the work.

Keywords: ethnography, ethnographic museums, ethnographic exhibitions, agro-industrial exhibitions, Galicia, Lviv museums.

Received 20.06.2025

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