Welcome to the Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford
The
oldest Ukrainian cultural institution in North America, welcomes
you with the traditional Ukrainian greeting:
"Bread and salt on a ritual cloth" Bread represents the staple of life, Salt, the riches of the earth and a shield against malice, while the ritual cloth represents a protective talisman. The periwinkle wreath is a symbol of enduring beauty and youth.
December
20, 2006 - A series of photographs depicting groups of people
dressed in their regional folk costumes keep reappearing in many
of the publications dealing with Ukrainian folk garb and folk
art. Although these groups of people are set against the background
of a village home (clay house with a thatched roof or a log house),
orchard or field, they, nevertheless, have the look of being staged
and posed for a special occasion or for a specific purpose.
This is the story behind these photographs. [Read more]
The
Library collection has in its holdings three albums of original photographs
depicting the Carpathian Mountains and its inhabitants- the Hutsuls.
The photographs were taken by Henryk Gasiorowski (1878-1947) in the
1920-30s. He was a Major in the Polish Army, a geographer and an author
of one of the best tourist guide books to the Carpathian mountains
and its environs, which was published in L’viv in 1933. He considered
the Hutsul region to be on of the most beautiful corners of the Carpathians
and the Hutsuls to be the most fascinating ethnographic group of people
not only in the Halychyna area but in the whole of Europe. [Read
more]