Museum Event 2007 All-Ukrainian Action

The Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund together with the Ukrainian Center for Museum Development and the National Television Company of Ukraine announce the start of the Third Museum Event of the Year All-Ukrainian Action.

This program is planned to select the biggest attainments and challenges defining the society’s attitude toward the museums and museum business in 2007.

The major criterion for selecting winners is the event’s social meaning, public response, influence on the national museums’ life and feedback in the last year. Recall that this event can be a show, an important publication, or even a museum robbery.

The selection will consist of two stages. In the first stage (February 10 – April 10, 2008) any person or organization can send their proposals to the organizing committee regarding the museum events and attainments, deserving national recognition.

The events have to meet two formal criteria: 1) be held in 1007 and 2) be organized, hosted, or carried out by a Ukrainian museum or museum worker. The application should include an account of the event, place and time, participants, contacts, etc. Photographs, media publications, and other additional information is also welcome.

The Organizing Committee will carry out preliminary selection in working order and form a list including all events and projects answering the formal criteria.

In the second stage (April 10 – May 10, 20087), the list will be sent to a wide range of experts, who will define the most outstanding museum events of 2007 in Ukraine through preferential voting.

The experts will be directors and staff members of the leading museums, journalists writing on culture, public figures, officials dealing with the museum business, people’s deputies from the specialized VR committee, heads of the specialized institutes at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, etc. In total, we are planning to interview 70 to 80 experts.

In forming the expert group, the organizers will be guided by experts’ standing in the museum community and level of their competence. The organizing committee will try to preserve a reasonable ratio of professionals and public representatives, as well as equal representation of all regions.

Organizing Committee contacts:

04070, 22A vul. Borychiv Tik, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Museum Event of the Year Action
Telephones (38+044) 537­6695, 467­6795
E­mail: mail@ukrmuseum.org.ua

The Museum Event of the Year is a joint project by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund, Ukrainian Center for Museum Development, and National Television Company of Ukraine. It is an annual competition celebrating most important, significant, and high-profile events in the Ukrainian museums sphere, exerting the biggest influence on the attitude to museums in the community.

This year, forty museum events in various Ukraine’s regions competed for these awards. The winners were selected through voting by over 70 experts, among who were journalists, museum workers, people’s deputies, public figures, etc.

The action has been held since 2006. Then, the first place in the Best Museum Event 2005 went to the Museum of the third Millennium First Ukrainian Museum Festival (Dnipropetrovsk History Museum), second – to the Ukrainian Portrait of the 16th and 17th Centuries show at the National Arts Museum of Ukraine, and third – to the construction of the Artistic Arsenal museum center started in Kyiv.

The best museum events of the year 2006 were the Eastern Collection exhibition at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Arts Museum (first place), Niko Pirosmanishvili exhibition at the National Arts Museum (second place), and unveiling the Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum (third place).