Ukraine forms military unit to shield endangered cultural sites
Military experts in archaeology and museum management join armed forces to protect threatened cultural objects.
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Record Ukrainian Easter amid Russian threat. PHOTO REPORT
Easter celebrations in Lviv served not only as a respite from the hardships of war but also as a powerful manifestation of the very Ukrainian identity that Russia seeks to erase.
Theaters, museums, libraries among 1,987 cultural sites damaged by Russian aggression in Ukraine
Russian military aggression has damaged or destroyed 1,987 cultural sites in Ukraine, including 958 community centers, 708 libraries, and 114 museums, profoundly affecting the country's cultural heritage.
Rescuing art while the world burns: Prymachenko’s paintings survive Russian invasion
Invasion As Russia's "special military operation" turned Ivankiv into a war zone, a ragtag band of museum staff and locals decided that saving some folk art was more important than staying alive.
Canada contributes to Holodomor Museum’s completion in Ukraine
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed defense and financial support, the situation…
Texty: Russian museums refuse to return 110,000 Ukrainian looted treasures
Two of Russia's most prominent museums are home to over 110,000 artifacts looted from Ukraine since imperial times, finds a Ukrainian investigation. In reality, the number is higher, as the museums obscure the origins of the artifacts.
Legendary art home of Ukrainian folk artist drowns in rising waters after dam blast
Following the Kakhovka Dam explosion, the Polina Raiko Home-Museum was submerged underwater, as reported by Semen Khramtsov, an…
Russians looted Byzantine gold from the Chersonesos Museum in Crimea
The temporarily occupied Crimea has witnessed the looting of the ancient reserve museum of Chersonesos Taurica by Russian…
Take a look at the unique paintings Russia looted from the Kherson Art Museum
As Russia retreated from south Ukraine’s Kherson, the only regional center it managed to seize since the start…
Tribunal or restitution? Ukraine eyes ways to return one of its richest art collections looted by Russia
In October 2022, nearly two weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses…
Russians fully robbed Kakhovka local history museum when retreating from Kherson Oblast
The retreating Russian army fully robbed the Kakhovka local history museum before retreating from the west bank of…
Crimean gold must return to Ukraine – Dutch court
Back on 14 December 2016, an Amsterdam court decided to return the “Scythian gold” to Ukraine, but in…
Ukrainian Holodomor Museum launches crowdfunding campaign to create main exhibition
A fundraising campaign has been launched to finish the construction of the Museum of Holodomor-Genocide, located in the…
Ukrainian Parliament backs idea of creating museum on Kyivan Rus archeology site
The Ukrainian parliament has backed Kyiv urban activists and archaeologists in a conflict between them and the city…
Activists fight back against decision of Kyiv authorities to build shopping mall on Kyivan Rus archaeology site
The Kyiv city council’s new decision claims to “guarantee the preservation of the artifacts, which were found during the archaeological…
The Crimean Tatar Palace and other historic sites Russia is destroying in occupied Crimea
Read also: Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage Among the illegal activities in Crimea, the prosecutors mentioned the following suspected crimes:…
How one highly acclaimed New York museum preserves Ukrainians’ heritage in the USA
For 40 years, this museum has been a pillar of the Ukrainian-American community. Tucked away within the artistic…
Russia methodically destroys and removes cultural treasures from occupied Crimea
KIEV (QHA) – According to information from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, prior to the Russian occupation…
Ukrainian 18th century Independence leader Ivan Mazepa to get his own museum
Centuries later, the famous Ukrainian Hetman – Ivan Mazepa is returning to Kyiv. A museum in memory of…
The first museum of war in Donbas opens in Dnipro [PHOTOS]
About 2000 artifacts in 3 halls will tell the history of the Donbas war in the first Ukrainian…