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26 May 2009 14:50

Awards Ceremony of Museum Event 2008 and Participants of the Support Program for Museum Workers for 2009-2010

May 26, 2009, St. Sophia of Kyiv National Preserve hosted the awards ceremony of the Fourth All-Ukrainian Museum Event action and Fifth Support Program for Museum Workers for 2009-2010.

These events were organized by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development with the financial support of Mandarin Plaza public corporation.

Among the participants of the event were Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko, Minister for Culture and Tourism Vasyl Vovkun, leading museum workers from various Ukraine’s regions, representatives of the authorities and foreign diplomatic missions, other persons interested in the museums’ life.

Mrs. Yushchenko greeted the museum workers on the occasion of their professional holiday, the International Day of Museums celebrated May 18. “Your museums are a true time machines, allowing us visitors to transport ourselves to the past and see it with our own eyes, access it, and use its lessons for our decisions and development,” she said.

Mrs. Kateryna described the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s projects designed to support the museum sector. She spoke about the Museum development charitable program, Ukraine’s only museum web portal The Museum Space of Ukraine, and the Museum Library preserving over 2,000 specialized publications.

Mrs. Yushchenko mentioned the great number of Ukrainian museums and museum workers taking part in this year’s actions. The record number of over 60 applications had been sent to the Museum Event of the Year with both leading and smaller museums presenting their actions, “This means that little by little local museums are starting to make their statements,” she said.

71 museum workers were willing to participate in the Support Program. “I am very happy that this year the Foundation’s grants will go to people actively promoting educational projects at their museums, elaborating and implementing new methods in their work with visitors,” Mrs. Kateryna said. “I’d like to give a special mention to the work with children.”

After that, the awards ceremony began. The winners and laureates were greeted by Mrs. Yushchenko and Minister Vovkun.

By the expert group’s decision, the financial aid of UAH 4,500 in June (with the opportunity of the same sum to be granted in January 2010) was awarded to:

• Zoya Shybchuk, Belshchunov Private Collections Municipal Museum, Odesa;
• Inna Havrylova, Mykolayiv Oblast Local History Museum, Mykolayiv.

Non-recurrent benefit of  UAH 100 was given to:

• Nadiya Zakhodenko, Local History Museum, Razdolne village, Donetsk oblast;
• Violetta Radomska, Lviv Art Gallery;
• Olha Horda-Zybko, Lviv Andriy Sheptytsky National Museum;
• Yuriy Domotenko, Obukhiv District Local History Museum, Kyiv oblast;
• Valentyna Shemchuk, Poltava State Panas Myrny Literary and Memorial Museum;
• Tetiana Poshyvaylo, Ivan Honchar Museum National Folk Culture Center, Kyiv;
• Yevdokiya Havryshchuk, Chernivtsi Local History Museum;
• Mykhaylo Sayany, Zmiyiv Local History Museum, Kharkiv oblast;
• Olha Soshnikova, Kharkiv Historical Museum;
• Ihor Sokunov, Weapons and Military Equipment Museum, Putivl, Sumy oblast;
• Heorhiy Baronenko, People’s Museum of Miners Fame of the East Donbas Mine, Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk oblast;
• Ivan Honchar, District Pottery Museum, Kobolchyn village, Chernivtsi oblast;
• Lusia Pereyma, Lviv Historical Museum.

Winners of the Fourth All-Ukrainian Museum Event action:

First prize (UAH 25,000) – Masterpieces Reborn from Ukraine’s Museum Treasuries exhibition project, National Research and Restoration Center, Kyiv (May-October 2008).

Second prize (UAH 15,000) – Ukraine-Sweden: the Crossroads of History (17th-18th centuries) international exhibition project, National Historical Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv (October 2008-May 2009).

Third prize (UAH 10,000) – Museum in the Modern Polyethnic World Second All-Ukrainian Music Festival, Dnipropetrovsk Dmytro Yavornytsky Historical Museum (September 18-22, 2008).

The Organizing Committee’s special awards were given to:

• The Hetmans’ Capital National History and Culture Preserve, Baturyn;
• The Ukrainian Orthodox Icon in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus exhibition project, Kyiv-Pechersk National History and Culture Preserve (July-August 2008);
• 200 Years of Aluminum project, Mykolayiv Local History Museum;
• MATRA/Ukrainian Museums international project;
• Ukraine’s Development Charitable Fund.