Exhibition
Peasant Kitchen — Reconstruction of Traditional Everyday Life
Ivan Honchar Museum — Ukrainian Centre of Folk Culture
The upcoming exhibition-reconstruction creates a full interior of a Ukrainian peasant kitchen of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, assembled from original items of the Honchar collection. The centrepiece is a clay-chelust oven with a neatly arranged prypichok, tableware from Opishne and Honcharivka, copper cauldrons, wooden dizhas for kvas and bread, stone querns, weaving tools of the woman-housewife (spinning wheel, motovylo, dough cord). A separate section covers ritual aspects of the kitchen: the red corner (pokut) with icons, rushnyky, festive tableware, shelf for salt and bread containers. The programme is supplemented by live demonstrations — bread baking, borscht cooking on the oven, cabbage fermentation in an oak dizha, varenyk forming. A separate lecture programme explores peasant everyday life as a form of sustainable, ecologically resilient living that contrasts with modern urban consumption patterns.
Location & Hours
📍 Address
вулиця Соборна, 99, Черкаси, 18000
🕒 Opening Hours
- MondayClosed
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- WednesdayTodayClosed
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