Oleksandr Vydavskyi, a resident of Vinnytsia from the village of Yaryshivka, created a museum of Ukrainian culture in an old house. His collection includes 325 handkerchiefs, 240 clay jugs and more than 270 embroidered towels.
Oleksandr has been collecting antiques related to Ukrainian culture for four years. However, he showed interest in her almost all his life. At first, his collection was replenished at the expense of the collector himself, and later his friends and acquaintances came to help. They began to bring jugs and towels, embroidered shirts and dresses.
For his museum, Oleksandr bought an old house, reroofed it, and made cosmetic repairs in it. And he made it so that some items are stored in separate rooms. For example, 18 embroidered paintings, the oldest of which is 140 years old, have their own "hall". And the room where the stable used to be was now a shelter for clay jugs.
"Here there are vats, jugs, cauldrons, there are twin vats. The wife cooked for her husband and took it to their field. Each jug, if taken, has the smell of steamed milk. How good milk was back then," says Oleksandr Vydavskyi.
One of the exhibits is a machine whose respectable age exceeds 100 years. Wooden nightstands, a butter churn and carpentry accessories deserve special attention. But the oldest is a sieve created from an ox's bladder and pierced with a nail. He is 150 years old.
Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to visit this museum. It is not yet open for visitors. The collector plans to make it an ethno-creative center.
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