We have the pleasure to present this unique report on the subject of the protection of intangible cultural heritage of Ukrainian communities fleeing the war to Poland. The report was created in the framework of the activities conducted by the Polish Support Center for Culture in Ukraine, and it is the first report of this...
On 8th June, in the framework of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of service, the National Institute of Cultural Heritage is organising discussion panels on the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage in Ukraine engulfed in war. The talks will be based on the foundation of the Warsaw Recommendation on recovery and reconstruction of...
The “stone beans”, standing on the Mount Kremenets in Izium, the Kharkiv region, have fallen victims Russian attacks. The anthropomorphic statues, artworks of Scythian and Polovtsian culture, depict warriors and women. During the hostilities they were fired upon and devastated by Russian troops. A Soviet flag was cynically tied to one of them. The Russian...
The director of the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after O. Shovkunenko (Ms. Alina Dotsenko) informed the Ukrainian media that representatives of the Russian Federation occupation authorities are planning to move Kherson art collections to the Crimea or Russia. The collection gathered in the Art Museum is around 8 thousand exhibits. 18th and 19th century...
The 18th century Oleksiivska Fortress, located in the village of Oleksiivka, near the town of Pervomaiskyi, is just another historic site in the Kharkiv region which has not been spared by Russian shells. It is a part of earthen fortifications built in 1731 by order of Empress Anna Ivanovna to protect the southern borderlands of...
On 20 May, a Russian missile hit the House of Culture in the town of Lozova in the Kharkiv region. The facility was one of the largest cultural institutions in the region. Its main hall could accommodate over 1,000 spectators. Only a year earlier, the House of Culture had been restored with funds from the...
In mid-May a shipment sent by the Polish Support Center for Culture in Ukraine arrived at the Olbia National Historical and Archaeological Reserve, in the Mykolayiv Region. It included fire protection means and materials to be used for safeguarding collections from the sites located in the Olbia region on coast of the Black Sea –...
War takes its toll, above all, on human life, killing not only soldiers in combat but also civilians seemingly far from the front line. Representatives of culture, science and art die in war. Each time, this is an irreversible blow to the intangible heritage of a given state and nation, and often to supranational heritage...
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR) has reported that Russian occupiers are plundering both museum and private art collections in the Kherson region. Special groups of soldiers are searching through flats and homes of collectors and antiquarians to find any valuable items. They reportedly take possession of everything...
In early May employees of the Kherson Regional Inspectorate for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments checked the state of preservation of cultural heritage sites on the territory of the Kherson Oblast (Region). Results of their work have shown that archaeological monuments – the burial mounds located at roadsides – are deliberately being destroyed...
