The exhibition tells about the events before and during the Second World War in Ukraine.
Seven halls united by the installation “The Road of War” introduce visitors to the history of humankind’s most significant conflict from 1939 to the complete occupation of Ukraine in chronological order. The exposition ends with the “Hall of Memory,” a symbolic space commemorating fallen soldiers and civilians.
The exhibition was created in 1994. On the one hand, the exhibition was not devoid of elements of the original 1981 exhibition and presented a propaganda narrative called the Great Patriotic War in the USSR. On the other hand, it consolidated the achievements of the national historical science of the post-Soviet period and the most modern artistic techniques.
This exhibition underwent stages of change in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is also a history archived in a single style, which shows how long it took to eradicate Soviet approaches to covering the Second World War.
Although the Museum’s space has been freed from Soviet ideological dominance, it is clear that a deep rethinking of the legacy of the Second World War is not yet complete. It is this difficult paradigm shift that the Museum’s Time Capsule testifies to.
Team of the project:
Curator – Liubov Legasova
Artists – Anatolii Haidamaka, Anatolii Musiyenko