Ukrainian Museum-Archives

The Ukrainian Museum-Archives (UMA) opened privately in 1952 and publicly, as a non-profit, in 1977. Housed in a one-time convent for Ukrainian nuns turned one-time home for Ukrainian boy scouts, the three-story late 19th-century home is located in Cleveland's historic Tremont neighborhood. There, two displaced Ukrainian scholars "took on the mission of collecting and preserving items from Ukrainian history and culture during an era when this kind of material was being deliberately destroyed in the Soviet Ukraine."

Their holdings now contain both a library with 45,000 books and 1,800 unique periodicals and one of the most extensive collections of Displaced Persons (DP) materials published in post-WWII European DP camps. It also contains a wide-ranging collection of archival ephemera, with tens of thousands of posters, postcards, photographs, stamps, and currency, and an extensive collection of recordings, with more than 2,000 rare 78 rpm and LP records. Its art collection spans both the work of renowned fine artists like sculptor Alexander Archipenko and painter-printmaker Jacques Hnizdovsky and traditional folk art, such as pysanky (Easter eggs), embroidery, and woodcarvings.