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About the museum

In 2020, the Zaporizhzhya Museum-Gallery of Ilya and Alexei Burlai’s Applied Ceramics and Paintings celebrated the tenth anniversary of the «Museum and School» project (2010 — 2020). This is what L.А. Griffen, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, wrote in the introduction to the 4th V.Batalkina’s book «Pages of the Artistic Chronicle»: «It is a real museum that has emerged with its appropriate design, interesting museum exhibits, that, first of all, include a collection of architectural and construction ceramics, works of fine arts. Their exhibiting features in the Zaporozhye Museum-Gallery of Ilya and Alexei Burlai’s Applied Ceramics and Paintings make one’s visit pleasant and useful. They make an impact on the visitors’ imagination and way of thinking as well as their values ​​and even the way of life of the people who find here the samples of technical and artistic culture of past generations, and contribute to the inclusion of these cultural values ​​into the modern cultural context.
Especially noteworthy is the work that is aimed at the children’s audience here at the museum. The Zaporozhye Museum-Gallery of Ilya and Alexei Burlai’s Applied Ceramics and Paintings, in its own way, is a unique social phenomenon».
As of 14 February 2020, more than 7,700 students took part in ten arts festivals within the framework of the ‘Museum and School’ project and all cultural and pedagogical events, which has given creative youth an opportunity to get acquainted with the art of painters, become participants of creativity workshops, music concerts, and thematic exhibitions.
Among the exhibits of architectural and construction ceramics presented in the museum-gallery there are over a thousand ones that are more than 100 years old. The ceramics have stamps and brand marks that make it possible to assess the collection by not only the material or technological characteristics, which, of course, is necessary for new ceramic production technologies at present, but also by the method of regenerating of the ethno-artistic features of the past eras. The purpose of exhibiting the museum-gallery’s collections is to promote aesthetic education and, when possible, introduce the best works of art and sculpture dedicated to the history of the museum-gallery foundation and its profile. As the visitors note (the archives of the museum contain 10 guest books with 1,597 handwritten reviews), the museum-gallery is characterized by the original way of exhibiting objects of engineering and fine arts.
A number of authors have studied and covered in their publications the story of founding the Zaporizhzhya Museum-Gallery of Ilya and Alexei Burlai’s Applied Ceramics and Paintings: as of 20 March 2020, 97 articles were published in periodicals, 29 in scientific publications, 4 in literature, and 4 in the Internet resources. The unpublished handwritten materials from the archive of the Zaporozhye Museum-Gallery of Ilya and Alexei Burlai’s Applied Ceramics and Paintings include 1,597 visitors’ reviews in guest books. This means that the museum-gallery has a positive development trend and identifies its role in the modern socio-cultural space.
Popularization of the Ukrainian art by studying the history of fine and musical arts in a technical museum of Ukraine is the main feature of the author’s «Museum and School» project, which was highlighted in 2013 by the article Events in the ICOM news international publication [Events. ICOM news. The international council of museums magazine — vol 66 NO 1. MARCH 2013. Museum News. C.4. (English). The events that have been held within the framework of this project since 2010 include seven thematic arts exhibitions, 14 classical music concerts involving students and teachers of Zaporozhye music schools and the V. P. Maiboroda music college, ten art festivals in which 7,717 students took part and replenished the museum with their drawings.
It is from an early age that we should develop the student’s ability to fully perceive and correctly understand the beauty of the arts, reality, and science. Undoubtedly, one of the ways to form a student’s aesthetic culture is visiting museums, since it is in the museum that the storage, study and exhibition of natural monuments, material and spiritual culture of the humankind takes place. It is in the museums that the visitors are acquainted with the whole wealth of the national and worldwide historical and cultural heritage. As it is noted by the scientists, the formation of the aesthetic movement is closely linked to the development of civilization, directly, to the forms of artistic and creative human activity. It is also connected to the problem of the specific nature of art, which leads to the emergence of the main types of the arts and educates the engineer-to-be about what technical creativity comprises in the 21st century.