Attractions of Novoselivka

The Museum of Pottery in the village of Novoselivka is a museum-estate of the brothers Yakym and Yakiv Herasymenko, who became famous all over the world thanks to their masterpieces of artistic ceramics.

The museum was opened in the house where famous masters were born in 1988, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yakym Herasymenko. They made bright, decorated with floral and geometric ornaments Kumans, barrels, baths, eggplants, tiles, plates, half-bowls, smoothies, pots, toys, figured utensils, as well as tea and tableware.

The museum exposition presents the works of the Gerasymenko brothers and other potters from Novoselivka and neighboring Bubnivka, who have long specialized in the manufacture of household utensils, as well as making building ceramics. After all, pottery has existed here since the seventeenth century, when Count Stanislav Potocki settled here 30 masters from Uman. A special place among the products of tambourine pottery was occupied by ceramic toys and small plastics (icons, crosses, etc.).

A separate collection in the museum consists of traditional clothes and household items of Novoselivka residents.