Museum of Folk Art and Crafts
ÚĽUV has been active in documenting folk art productions for almost six decades. The act from 1958 establishing ÚĽUV made the organisation obliged to "conduct research and documentation in the field of folk art production and to process the results of such work professionally". Conducting research, the ÚĽUV experts assembled a collection of items which served as a collection of samples of folk art products for inspiration and restoration of productions, as applicable.
Serving as a new specialised workplace of the Centre for Folk Art Production, the Museum of folk art production was established by a resolution of the Ministry of Culture of SR in August 2008.
The museum will not build expositions of special subjects in the years to follow. After the collections are processed, the museum will open them to professional community in a form of an open depository. The collections will be arranged according to the ethnographic system, in glass, illuminated showcases with an easy content-protected access. ÚĽUV will allow general public to study them.
The museum´s collections comprise of approximately 13 500 items, of which around 10 500 pieces are from textile (parts of traditional clothes, interior textiles, embroidery, lace, fabrics, blueprint) and approximately 3 000 pieces of other materials - items from ceramics, wood, natural textures, metal, leather, horn, glass-painting and Easter-eggs.
Contacts:
PhDr. Martin Mešša, Director , phone: +421 908 / 767 722
PhDr. Alena Rybáriková, the Museum curator, phone: +421 908 / 767 711
Mgr. Petra Jarošová, the Museum curator, phone: +421 917 / 546 986
