It is the first private art museum in this country. It has been founded at the expense of a well-known Kiev collector and patron of art, Igor Ponamarchuk.
In the light spacious halls, having an exposition area of about 3,000 sq. meters, are displayed more than 300 efforts by Ukrainian icon-painters. Their chronology embraces the period between the 15th and 20th centuries, and geography – the territory from Volhynia and Galicia to Slobodian Ukraine. The subject range of the icons is very broad. Among more than 100 iconographic compositions are quite few rare ones. The museums exposition also presents the works of well-known Ukrainian folk artist Maria Priymachenko (1908-1997). Her creative efforts are based on the traditional Ukrainian naïve painting. The Great Pablo Picasso, after having seen Maria works at the exhibition of folk art in Paris, exclaimed: “Beautiful pictures by a woman genius!”