Our Presence in the USA

In Manhattan, downtown New York, the cornerstone has been laid of what will become a new multistory building to house the Ukrainian Museum. “Owing to the new museum, which will soon become one of the most important centers of the Ukrainian presence in the United States, Ukraine will not only familiarize the vast international community with its cultural heritage, but project its modern image in one of the most influential metropolises of the world,” Ukraine’s permanent UN representative Valery Kuchynsky declared at a meeting with museum management. The meeting, also attended by Ukraine’s Consul General in New York Serhiy Pohorieltsev, was dominated by practical issues of equipping the new museum and expanding its collection capacities, enlisting the cooperation of Ukrainian state establishments, museums and picture galleries, reports Interfax-Ukraine. The Ukrainian Museum in New York was founded in 1976. The new museum building has been designed to house an array of expositions, art displays, and museum collections, reports Interfax-Ukraine. The museum has plans to hold expositions of works by Oleksandr Arkhypenko, a Ukrainian sculptor of world renown. It is also planned to open for public the archives of Ukraine’s diplomatic missions in the US since the time of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1917.