About us

Located just north of downtown Edmonton, the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Alberta Branch has been collecting, preserving, and sharing items of historical, cultural, and artistic significance for over 80 years, advancing knowledge of Ukrainian heritage in Canada. Our goal is to connect visitors with the lived experiences of the early Ukrainian settlers — from their embroidery and folk dress to their folk traditions and everyday life.

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Current Exhibit

Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Alberta Branch invites you, your family, friends, and colleagues to attend our new exhibit, “Repression, Resistance and Nationhood: Ukrainian Nation-Building – A Historical Representation”. The exhibit opened on Friday May 22nd at 7 pm and continues until the end of August.

The exhibit showcases milestones in Ukrainian history including the founding of Kyiv, Kyivan Rus, the Halych-Volyn Principality and Kingdom, the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate, the 1917-21 Ukrainian War of Independence, Independent Ukraine and its people’s courageous fight against the Kremlin’s current military invasion of Ukraine.

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News and Events

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Ukrainian Day at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village

On Sunday, August 25th, 2024 the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Alberta Branch mounted a beautiful…

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Guided Tour for kids

On Thursday, May 16th, 2024 the museum hosted a guided tour for school children from…

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Signage Project

The Mural Panels for our museum’s exterior in the development! The Signage Project by artist…

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Collections


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Religious Byzantine Artifacts

Collection includes artifacts such as icons, priests’ vestments, chalices, crosses and other liturgical objects

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Folk Arts

Collection features folk arts and crafts of various regions of Ukraine including jewelry, decorative wood objects, pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), straw weavings, ceramics, toys, and ceremonial breads

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Textiles

Collection focuses on items that were woven or embroidered such as clothing, rushnyky, tapestries, weavings and kylyms

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Fine Arts

Collection includes items such as paintings, sculptures and other arts works by artists from Ukraine, Canada, Europe and the United States.

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Feature: Yavoriv Shortsy

This skirt called traditionally “shortsy” was acquired by the museum in 1986 and came from Yavoriv district, Lviv oblast, Halychyna (Galicia).

In Yavoriv, women wore a woolen skirt called “shortsy”, just like this one, with frequent colored vertical stripes on a white background. Above the skirt, women wore an embroidered linen “zapaska” (apron).

 

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We Need Your Support

The museum is currently undergoing substantial renovations, including the installation of new tiles, lighting, display cases and storage units. Monetary donations would be greatly appreciated.

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