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27 February 2007 16:09
Representatives of the Ukraine 3000 Fund Visit the Poltava Local History Museum
February 27, 2007, representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund visited the Poltava Local History Museum. Head of the Fund’s Supervisory Board Kateryna Yushchenko, Advisor to the Head of the Supervisory Board Andriy Myroshnichenko, Head of the Board of Directors Oleksandr Maksymchuk, Head of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Hospital of the Future Charitable Fund Vira Pavliuk, and Head of the Information and Analysis Department of the Ukrainian Center for Museum Development Vladyslav Pioro took part in the said event.
Representatives of the Fund were given a tour of the museum, visiting, in part, the Declassified Memory exhibition of archive documents from the Security Service of Ukraine. The guests talked to the museum administration and staff.
The Poltava Local History Museum is among oldest and most renowned Ukraine’s museums. Its collection lists around 300,000 exhibits. Among them are collections of Poltava folk embroidery, weaving, carpets, church attributes; archeological, numismatic, naturalistic collections, etc. Among rarities are the Early Egypt collection, a number of classical and Eastern artifacts, Cossack antiquities, etc. The museum was awarded with a diploma from the Ministry of Culture for best scientific, research, and publishing works and with the Yavornytsky Prize, First Degree. In 2005 the museum won at the Museum of the Third Millennium Festival in the Scholarly Collections nomination.
Representatives of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund have arrived to Poltava for a one-day working visit, whose agenda includes visiting Poltava’s medical and educational institutions. Besides, Mrs. Yushchenko is to take part in the Education of the Future through the Eyes of the Young roundtable to be held at the Poltava Consumers’ Cooperation University.
As part of the visit, the Fund’s new program, Cossacks’ Fame for the Little Readers, was presented. The Fund’s representatives have also visited Poltava medical facilities: the Poltava Oblast Children’s Hospital and Poltava Oblast Sklifosovsky Clinical Hospital, and delivered equipment for the infants’ care unit of the Kremenchuk City Children’s Clinical Hospital.
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