Oposhnya
Oposhnya at a first glance - a town like so many in Ukraine: some market places, a small church and some domestic animals there on the streets. But it is only the first glance.
On this location the celebrated masters of pottery have lived and worked for centuries. Many pages of the book of being a Ukrainian have been written here.
Oposhnya - An old Cossack settlement. It is located on the picturesque hills above the river Vorskla.
Oposhnya - the most "high" settlement of Poltava (208 meters above the sea level). Written sources first mentioned it in the 12th century.
Oposhnya - the avowed capital of the Ukrainian ceramics. Pottery was started here several centuries ago.
In the late 19th - early 20th century in Oposhnya worked about 1000 potters, whose products were exported to almost all continents of the world.
Since 1929 the ceramics were produced cooperatively by - artel enterprise "Krasinaya Keramika (Red Ceramics)" - and from 1962 - the factory of Art and Ceramics.
In 1986 the Museum of pottery was founded, and on the basis three years later - by the order of the Government of Ukraine - began the setting up of the state museum of Ukrainian pottery. But now in Oposhnya there is a unique multifunctional scientific and educational complex, which has no analogues in Ukraine.
In its complex - except for the museum of pottery - are:
- The College of Arts in Oposhnya;
- The Publishers of " Ukrainian ethnology" magazine ;
- The only Ukrainian gallery of monumental ceramics under the open sky ;
- The Memorial Museum-estate of the famous Ukrainian Goncharov Alexander Selyuchenko and the Poshivaylo family;
- A specialized library and archives ;
- An Audio-visual Fund ;
and much more.
Therefore, and not surprisingly, Oposhnya become a venue for scientific and practical conferences and seminars on pottery, monumental ceramic workshops, national workshops on pottery, etc.
