A unique phenomenon of our culture, a true national symbol, is the pysanka, whose history dates back to ancient times. One of its largest collections is the corresponding fund of the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and part of it (250 items) is the object of research and digitization within the framework of the project “Ukrainian Pysanka in the European Cultural Space,” which was made possible with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

The Museum of Ethnography and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is one of the richest ethnographic museums in Ukraine. Its collection is based on the museum holdings of various museum institutions, with the collections of the Museum of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) occupying a prominent place.

The formation of the collection of Easter eggs at the NTSh Museum began in the early twentieth century. The Shevchenko Scientific Society's appeals to the Ukrainian public to collect and send pysankas to the museum had a significant impact on the collection's replenishment.

The Ethnographic Commission of the National Academy of Sciences published such appeals annually in the press of that time. As early as 1929, the collection of the Museum of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society consisted of 4,200 pysankas, including 3,095 from Galicia, 494 from Volyn and Kholm, 203 from Bukovyna, and 14 from Kyiv.

The subject of our study within the project was Easter eggs that were received by the museum before 1939. It is from this part of the collection that we selected 250 monuments to digitize and create a web catalog, 50 of which were chosen to create 3D models (3D images).

We publish the results of this work on the pages of this resource in the form of a web catalog of selected monuments, where you can see high-quality photos of Easter eggs, their attribution descriptions and 3D models of the most attractive 50 monuments. The catalog's functionality allows you to filter Easter eggs by individual attribution fields, including ethnographic region, ornamental motifs, technique, and period of creation.