The Tradart Museum

About museum

The Museum of Traditional Art of the Peoples of the World (TRADART) was established by Kirill Mironov in 2012. The museum's collection is based on clay toys from various pottery centers of the USSR, collected in the 1960s by Alexander Bykov and Alexander Mironov. The work was continued by the collectors' sons.

Today, the museum's collection includes splints and folk paintings, masks, theater dolls, wood, metal and papier-mache products. As a result of a number of expeditions, a unique collection of objects from Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Oceania was formed.

TRADART considers folk art as a part of cultural heritage, where tradition appears as a living and ongoing practice in a modern artistic and social context. The extensive collection allows us to raise questions about how modern crafts are organized and what unites them in different cultures.

The museum staff is engaged in the study and restoration of the collected material, the organization of expeditions and exhibitions, the publication of scientific papers, albums and catalogs. The museum has a gallery and a lecture hall, a meeting space for researchers, collectors, craftsmen and anyone interested in traditional art.