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27 May 2010 17:12

Best Museum Events in 2009 Were Announced

May 27, 2010, the Contemporary Fine Arts Museum hosted the awards ceremony of the Fifth Museum Event all-Ukrainian action and celebrating the participants of the Support Program for Museum Workers for 2010-2011. The event was organized by Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development.

Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation Kateryna Yushchenko took part in the event along with representatives of the authorities, foreign diplomatic missions, Ukrainian journalists, and other persons interested in the museums’ life.

Mrs. Yushchenko greeted museum workers on the occasion of their professional holiday - International Day of Museums, celebrated May 18. “Your work helps to preserve to protect our heritage,” she said. “Thanks to you, love and respect for national traditions, history, and art is instilled in people.”

Mrs. Kateryna said that though Ukraine had wonderful museum traditions, to meet the 21st century challenges, our museums had to introduce new technologies, master new methods of sharing information, and adopt progressive international experience.

Kateryna Yushchenko described the most high-profile events of last year’s museum life in Ukraine. Among them were big-scale actions, like celebrating anniversaries of St. Sophia of Kyiv preserve, Volyn Local History Museum, and village Kolodiazno museum; unveiling Kyrylo Rozumovsky’s palace in Baturyn after restoration, unveiling the first order of Bohdan Kmelnytsky’s residence in Chyhyryn and Artistic Arsenal, along with Prison in Lontska St. memorial. There were some negative events in the life of museums last year. Among them is an attempt by Kyiv authorities to evict Pavlo Tychyna memorial apartment-museum and a real risk to land on the street for the National Scientific and Research Restoration Center, as well as building over historical centers of cities, destroying unique monuments.

Mrs. Yushchenko gave a special notion to many Ukrainian museums and museum workers taking part in this year’s actions. She said that 52 applications had come to the Museum Even of the Year competition with both leading and small museums presenting their actions. Among them were multimedia projects, mass events, theater shows and many other interesting events.

Kateryna Yushchenko expressed her satisfaction with the fact that the tradition to award museum workers was being gradually adopted by other Ukraine’s regions. Last year the first all-Crimean museum competition was held. This year Lviv-based museum workers received grants from local authorities on the International Day of Museums. “I am certain that other Ukraine’s regions will join in this movement,” Mrs. Kateryna said.

“All this proves the fact that, in spite of hard times, museum life in Ukraine is rich and diverse,” Mrs. Kateryna said/

After that, the awards were bestowed upon winners and grant-holders.

80 museum workers from throughout Ukraine expressed their wish to take part in the Museum Workers Support Program for 2010-2011.

By the decision of the expert group, grants of UAH 4,500 in June 2010 (with the possibility of awarding another one of the same amount in January 2011) were awarded to:

• Yuliya Lytvynets, National Arts Museum of Ukraine
• Olha Hofman, Husiatyn district community local history museum, Ternopil oblast.

One-off financial aid to the sum of UAH 1,000 was awarded to:

• Roksolana Kosiv, Lviv Andriy Sheptytsky National Museum
• Rayisa Tyshkevych, Sarny History and Ethnography museum, Rivne oblast
• Liudmyla Nozdrina, Berdiansk Local History Museum, Zaporizhzhia oblast
• Mykola Alekseyenko, Chembalo Fortress, branch of the Chersones of Tavria National Preserve, AR Crimea
• Halyna Ryh, Berezansk City Folk Local History Museum, Kyiv oblast
• Mykhaylo Sayany, Zmiyiv Local History Museum, Kharkiv oblast
• Tamara Dmytrenko, State History and Culture Preserve, Dubna, Rivne oblast
• Volodymyr Buchko, Halych Nature Museum at the Halych National Nature Park. Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
• Alla Holovachova, Anton Chekhov Mansion-Museum, Yalta, AR Crimea
• Nataliya Miroshnychenko, Max Voloshyn Mansion-Museum, Feodosiya, AR Crimea
• Vasyl Skoryk, Dykanka Harmash History and Local History Museum, Poltava oblast
• Anna Zelenska, Kharkiv Literary Museum
• Ihor Khoborov, Bohdan and Varvara Khanenkos Arts Museum, Kyiv
• Tetiana Sabodash, Olesko Castle museum and preserve, beanch of Lviv Arts Gallery, Olesko, Lviv oblast

52 museum projects carried in 2009 competed for the title of the best event, with over 100 experts taking part in the selections.

Winners of the Fifth Museum Event all-Ukrainian action:

First place (UAH 15,000) – unveiling the last Ukrainian Cossack hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky’s palace in Baturyn after restoration. August 22, 2009, Baturyn, Chernihiv oblast.

Second place (UAH 10,000) – Mariya Prymachenko 100 art project, 2009, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art, Kyiv.

Third place (UAH 10,000) – Ivan Rutkovych, Zhovkva iconostasis (1697–1699): to the 310th anniversary project, 2009, Lviv Andriy Sheptytsky National Museum.

Special citation by the organizing committee:

• Contemporary Fine Arts Museum, Kyiv
• The first all-Crimean museum competition, Preserves and Museums Association, AR Crimea
• Volyn Local History Museum, Lutsk
• Zolochiv Castle Preserve and Museum, Zolochiv, Lviv oblast
• Reprinting of 1931 edition of Kobzar by Shevchenko illustrated by Sedliar
• Mathieu Ardin, Director of the French Cultural Center
• Jerzy Onuch, Director of the Polish Institute in Kyiv

In course of the event, Mr. Jerzy Onuch announced the start of a new joint action by the Polish Institute in Kyiv and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development – a competition for Ukrainioan museum workers, prepared to implement innovative Ukrainian-Polish projects. The details will soon be published at the Museum Portal of Ukraine.

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.

The Program to Support Museum Workers is a joint program by Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and Ukrainian Center for Museum Development. Its major goal is offering beneficial aid to the professionals who make their museum a central piece of the cultural space in their region, serving the society and popularizing the cultural heritage preserved in their museum.