Did you know that the employees of the All-Ukrainian Art Restoration and Reproduction Workshops, which operated on the territory of the Lavra Preserve in the 1930^s, not only inspected and restored cultural heritage assets but also created copies of museum objects?

In the autumn of 1932, Mark Weinstein, director of the workshops, asked Petro Kurinny, director of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town, to temporarily issue a number of ancient Egyptian artifacts for making replicas: statuettes of Osiris, Isis, Apis, sculptural images of a cat, crocodile, scarab, Ancient Egyptian mask, and others.

Restorer Davyd Trypilsky had to receive artifacts and make appropriate three-dimensional reproductions.

Anna Yanenko

Captions to illustrations:
Fig. 1. Ancient Egyptian statuettes from the collection of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town. Photograph of the 1930s? (From the collection of the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, inv. №KPL-N-2513)
Fig. 2. Ancient Egyptian Mask of the Roman period from the collection of the All-Ukrainian Museum Town (now is stored in the National Museum of Arts named after Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko). Photograph of the 1930s (From the collection of the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, inv. № KPL-N-2712).