The Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art Museum is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. It is located on the grounds of the National Kyiv-Pechersk historico-cultural preserve and is housed in the former Metropolitan's residence and the adjacent Annunciation church (ХVІІІ – beginning of ХХ century).

Now the reserves and displays of the museum contain over 75,000 artifacts of Ukrainian traditional folk and professional decorative art dating from XV century to present days. Many of them are household and domestic articles varied in material, shape, decoration, and purpose which talented craftsmen had turned into highly artistic items inhering the wealth of regional specificities. Art works created by professional artisans demonstrate implementation of established folk traditions in their creative concepts.

The museum permanent exhibition which totals some 1,500 sq. m. represents all types of Ukrainian folk art: carpet weaving, weaving, print, embroidery, ceramics, wood carving and painting, artistic leatherwork, horn and metal work, glassware, porcelain, Easter egg painting ("pysankarstvo"), folk painting and iconography.