Glance at Culture - Ukraine War Museum's Milena Chorna Discusses the "Ukraine. Crucifix" Project, Artifacts of War and Russian Imperialism

To learn more, please visit the website for Ukraine's War Museum.

Cover photo by Viktor Byshev of the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Peremoha that Russians attacked and damaged. Left in the photo is Dr. Yurii Savchuk and right is the clergyman from the Church, Oleksandr Yarmolchyk. 

Show Notes:

1:30 National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War 
2:00 War Museum’s exhibition on 24 February 2022
2:20 “Forever Free Ukraine” curated by Director General Dr. Yurii Savchuk 
4:00 War Museum’s removal of exhibitions on 24 February 2022
5:20 “Forever Free Ukraine” exhibition now in Lithuania
6:00 Ukrainian museum workers are mostly women
6:25 Swedish photographer of Polish descent Andrzej Markiewicz volunteered to document areas that were de-occupied 
7:00 33 field trips 
8:00 Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
9:10 New York exhibition “Ukraine. Crucifix. Tribunal” 
9:15 Latvia exhibition “Ukraine. Crucifix. 360” 
9:35  message from exhibition “there always should come light”
10:00 Dr. Yurii Savchuk 
11:00 Designer/Artist Anton Logov
11:45 symbols from the Soviet Union
12:20 military helmets - star and “Lenin” 
12:50 insurgent army 1960s
13:15 boots symbol 
13:50 star symbol  
20:15 motivators for Russians to annihilate Ukrainian cultural heritage 
20:20 18th Century Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorii (Gregory) Skovoroda Museum
21:15 Russians targeting gold
21:30 Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, an 11th-century Orthodox cave monastery complex
22:15 Ukrainian established circa 11th C 
23:15 Maria Prymachenko-The Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum
24:25 Ukraine Museum Crisis Center 
24:25  Ukraine Museum Crisis Center while working for the State Agency of Arts and Artistic Education focusing on developing artistic education 
25:00  Luhansk Museum of Local Lore Director Olesya Milovanova 
31:15: collaboration 
32:15 dealings with Russian museums
35:50 “Children…” memorial
36:50 “Tree of Life”
37:20 Ukrainian Museum of Canada
38:00 symbol of doors 
38:45 “United for Justice” exhibition 
39:20 New York exhibition 
39:45 door in exhibition is from  basement in Yahidne 
42:00 Crucifixion exhibition includes basement bomb shelter 
45:00 “United for Justice” exhibition
45:30 justice 
47:40 working trip to Holland in March 2023 
49:15 Russian civilians are the invaders
49:30 Hermitage director who justifies what’s going on should at least be punished by opinions of his colleagues 
49:45 Russia in ICOM and UN 
50:20 “If Russian Empire collapses - maybe that would be some kind of justice”
51:00 artefact from Kherson after it was de-occupied on November 11
51:30 flag 
52:50 feedback of civilians about exhibition 
54:45 feedback of soldiers about exhibition
55:40 commemoration days twice per month
56:50 mission
57:45 message to those outside Ukraine

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