[3] The collection contains over 79,000 artefacts of Ukrainian traditional folk and professional decorative art, dating from 15th century to today.

[4] The collection was formed to celebrate regional differences in folk art, which are expressed on many household and domestic objects.

[1] One of the most significant aspects of the museum's collection is its extensive holdings of Ukrainian folk costumes, dating from the nineteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries.

A range of folk art styles and skills are demonstrated on these items, including specialist techniques of sewing, weaving, embroidery, applique, print, wicker-work, artistic leather work and metalwork.

The collection also includes a carved cross dating from 1576, tiles produced from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, silk sasges, Cossack tobacco-pipes and powder flask, religious vestments dating to the 1800s, early modern glassware and archived collections from both the Kyevo-Mezhighirskaya faience factory and Volokitinsky porcelain works.