“Memorial Museum of the outstanding Ukrainian artist. Located on the territory of the Bilokuriv family estate in the village of Bohdanivka, Boryspil district, Kyiv region, where the artist lived all her life (1900—1961).

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The museum was created thanks to the persistent efforts of the former director of the Yagotyn State Historical Museum Alexander Neporozhny and O. K. Bilokur.

The first record at the opening of the museum was made by the hand of Oles Gonchar on November 26, 1977.

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The museum has about 500 exhibits.

The Bohdanovsky memorial includes a museum hut and a garden plot where trees grow - contemporaries of the artist and a marble park sculpture - a full-grown figure of Kateryna Bilokur, authored by her nephew Ivan Bilokur, has been installed.

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Near the gate on the polished granite there is an inscription: “Let us worship the land where Katerina Bilokur lived and worked. From here, from a white peasant cottage, the work of a folk artist moved to the great worlds, her painterly poetry went to the people. Take care of the sanctuary.”

Around the house there is wicker wood (the same as it was during the life of the artist), near the cottage there is a 115-year-old elm.

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The interior of the hut looks like during the life of Ekaterina Bilokur. Her furniture is long benches under the walls, tables, bed, chest. Like many years ago, they stand their ground. Documentation and accuracy of the house furnishing are confirmed by two drawings of the artist, made in pencil.

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In the room, which is the rule of the workshop, there is an artist's easel, homemade brushes, tubes of oil and watercolor paints, small palettes of glass on which the paint has dried.

In the exposition of the museum there are also original works of the artist, made with oil paints and pencil: “In Bohdanivka behind the dam”, “Krasotula and dahlias”, “Birds”, “Dahlias on a blue background”, “Portrait of a woman in a green corset” and others.

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The museum-estate exhibits photographs of the artist, excerpts from letters, statements of Nikolai Bazhan, Oles Gonchar. An interesting library of the hostess is collected here: Shevchenko, Gogol, Chernyshevsky, various painting manuals and so on.”

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