Museum history pages

1 May 1923 Dr.. in Chernihiv on the street. Magistratska in one of the houses on the Hortynski estate (today there is a dental polyclinic) expositions of two museums were opened at once.

The Ethnographic Museum was built on the second floor, or the Museum of Peasant Life, as a "class antagonist" of the Museum of Landlord Life and Arts, open 1 July 1919 Dr.. in Myloradovich's house. The idea of ​​organizing the Ethnographic Museum appeared in 1919 р., in July 1920 Dr.. a decision was made. Vasyl Yukhimovych Zubko was appointed as the head (early. 1890-x – 1922), ethnographer, краєзнавця, one of the founders of the Chernihiv Scientific Society and its academic secretary (sorry for, We do not have a photo of V.Zubka yet). The museum collection consisted of the ethnographic collection of the Historical Museum of the Provincial Scientific Archival Commission (WAIT UNTIL), materials of zemstvo provincial craft and industrial exhibitions, income 1919 - early 1920s. It reflected all aspects of people's life: suit and housing, traditions and rituals, social and family system, culture and production. Although, that the museum began to purposefully collect ethnographic monuments later than other groups, thanks to the tours of P.M. Dobrovolskyi and the care of Governor E.K. Andrieisky over 100 exhibits of the CHAK were already in 1902–1903. presented at the First International Exhibition of Historical and Modern Costumes in St. Petersburg, and in 1905 Dr.. at the ethnographic exhibition of the XIII Archaeological Congress in Katerynoslav. Collected work of Chernihiv ethnologists and folklorists, worried about the rapid disappearance of traditional items of peasant life, which were replaced by cheaper factory products, activated with 1914 р., and especially with the organization of the Scientific Society.

An attempt to organize a museum at the end 1920 Dr.. in the outbuilding of the former House of Nobles' Assembly (the buildings have not been preserved) turned out to be unsuccessful, the premises clearly did not meet the needs of the ethnographic collection. Memories of this were left by K.I. Sambursky, who noted in his diary: April 9 1921 Dr.. Arrived in the evening (with y. Huzhivka, where lived K.I.) from Chernigov V.G. Drozdov, seconded by gubnarostiva to pick up paintings from Parafiivka, taken into account by me. Drozdov seems, which was founded in Chernihiv the 4th Soviet Museum. It is located in the wing next to the noble assembly. The relics of St. Feodosia. A special box with a glass roof is made for them, smaller than the length of the relics…. Soldiers are on duty near the relics. They say, that the village women bring oil to the soldiers on duty and for that they are allowed near the relics. 4 July 1921 Dr.. Visited the ethnographic museum, where the relics of St. Feodosia. The museum occupies one small room. Several embroideries are placed here, coats of arms of cities, etc. The objects collected here cannot be called a museum".

Наприкінці 1921 Dr.. the exhibition "Chernihivshchyna" was organized in two two-story houses on the Hortynsky manor, a significant part of which consisted of the materials of the ethnographic museum. After the exhibition closed, the Ethnographic Museum began to be arranged on the second floor of one of the buildings. У березні 1922 Dr.. V. Yu. Zubok died, the museum was headed by his colleague from the ethnographic section, monument keeper, artist Borys Kuzmovich Pylypenko (1892–1937). With the onset of heat, the Ethnographic Museum was preparing to mount and open the exposition. Why did the museum start working a year later??

Hortynskyi houses, in one of them in 1923–1925. were contained: on the second floor - the Ethnographic Museum, on the first - the Museum of Cults. Now there is a dental clinic.

In the Ethnographic Museum, left to right: - Volodymyr Gennadiyovych Drozdov, zav. Museum of Cults; Valentin Andriyovych Shugaevskyi, zav. Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities named after. VV. Tarnovsky and Chernihiv State Museums (ČDM); Stepan Gavrilovich Baran-Butovich, zav. excursion bureau of ChM. August 1924 Dr..

In the Ethnographic Museum, sitting from left to right: VI. Ziza, zav. Museum of Cults V.G. Drozdov, Director of ChDM Yu.V.. Olander, zav. Museum named after. VV. V.A. Tarnovsky. Shugaevsky, zav. Historical and Archaeological Museum of P.I. Smolichev; standing from left to right: zav. excursion bureau S.G. Baran-Butovich, zav. Museum of Life and Arts H.M. Vakulovskyi, Т.М. Golovinska, zav. Ethnographic Museum of B.K. Pylypenko. May 1925 Dr..

Scientific secretary of the museum, Ludmila Linyuk