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25 May 2010 09:32

Ukraine 3000 Foundation to Celebrate Best Museum Events in 2009

May 27, 2010, at 2:00 pm, the Contemporary Fine Arts Museum (17 Hlybochytska St., Kyiv) will host the awards ceremony of the Fifth Museum Event all-Ukrainian action and participants of the Support Program for Museum Workers for 2010-2011.

Laureates of this year’s actions and leading museum workers from all Ukraine’s regions were invited to attend the ceremony along with representatives of the authorities, foreign diplomatic missions, Ukrainian journalists, and other persons interested in the museums’ life. Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko also plans to take part in the event.

The best museum of the year is selected by a broad range of experts from all Ukraine’s regions: museum workers, monument conservation specialists, public and media figures.

This year 52 museum projects carried in 2009 competed for the title, with over 100 experts taking part in the selections.

Detailed information and registration for media at the phone (050) 201-6361. Contact person – Kateryna Zorkina.

The Museum Event of the Year all-Ukrainian action, founded in 2006, is an annual competition, carried out by Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development. Its major goal is to attract public attention to the most important events and trends in the Ukrainian museums sphere and stimulate the museums’ staff to give more publicity to their projects. In the last five years, the action has been recognized by professionals and drawn attention from public and mass media.