Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre
Museum, gallery, library and archives with embroidered textiles and folk art; rushnyky not named explicitly in the sources read.
What the sources say
The Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre was founded in Winnipeg in 1944. Its founding members included Volodymyr Kossar, Pavlo Matsenko, Kateryna Antonovych, Tymysh Pavlychenko, Alexander Koshetz, and Tetiana Koshetz. The institution functions as a museum, art gallery, library, and archive to house Ukrainian cultural artifacts and preserve the community's heritage in Canada.
The museum holds richly embroidered textiles, including regional costumes and clothing, alongside pioneer tools, musical instruments, intricately carved woodwork, and kilim rugs. The broader collections contain over 50,000 works and artifacts, including nearly 6,000 pysanky, rare ceramics from displaced persons camps, and more than 500 meters of textual archival material.
The art collection features over 900 lithographs, oils, acrylics, and sculptures by Ukrainian and North American artists, including Jacques Hnizdovsky and William Kurelek. The library houses approximately 53,600 volumes, containing rare books such as a 1658 Gospel from the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery and an 1808 edition of Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Eneida.
- Type
- Museum collection
- Where
- Canada — Winnipeg
- Year
- 1944
- Organizer
- Oseredok
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