“Ukraine – Crucifixion”
Opening date: May 8, 2022
For the first time in global museum practice, a permanent exhibition has been created that tells the story of russia’s large-scale invasion. The real aggression of the russian federation is presented through original artifacts and photographs.
After the liberation of the temporarily occupied territories of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in early April 2022, museum workers embarked on an expedition to the devastated cities of Irpin and Bucha, the towns of Borodianka, Hostomel, and Makariv, and the villages of Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, Andriivka, Lypivka, Makovyshche, Stoianka, Lukianivka, Peremoha, and others.
One of the exhibition’s focal exhibits is the icon “The Descent from the Cross”, which has a fragment of a russian mine embedded in it. This icon was taken from the enemy-damaged Church of St. Dimitry of Rostov in the town of Makariv in the Kyiv region.
For this exhibition, the museum received high international honors, including special jury awards at the Museums + Heritage Awards (London, UK) and the European Museum Award from the European Museum Academy (Timișoara, Romania). It was also nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award – 2024 by the European Museum Forum (Portimão, Portugal).
Team of the project:
Author of idea and curator – Yurii Savchuk
Artists – Anton Logov, Anatolii Musiyenko
Coordinators – Oksana Yankovenko, Iryna Kotsabiuk
Research – Oleksandr Bilous, Yaroslava Pasichko, Volodymyr Tretiak, Iryna Yermolaieva, Tetiana Pohorila, Vita Pchola, Bohdan Halchynskyi, Zlatko Zlatanov, Serhii Sudynovych, Anatolii Dudar, Maksym Milevskyi, Svitlana Shman, Svitlana Demchenko
Texts – Volodymyr Simperovych, Andrii Solonets
Audio and video content – Svitlana Datsenko, Oleksandr Pasternak, Oleksandr Ocheretianyi
Restoration – Iryna Rudenko, Ivan Kolesnyk, Yulia Penzina, Tetiana Yavorska
Public communication – Zhanna Ocheretiana, Anastasia Yevhlevska
Translation – Dmytro Hainetdinov, Oleksandr Pasternak
Text editor – Yurii Bedryk
Excursion management – Dmytro Hainetdinov
Photographers – Viktor Byvshev, Andrzej Markiewicz
Graphic design – Andrii Moiseienko, Olha Moskovchenko
Technical support:
Information technologies – Andrii Artemenko, Andrii Zahrebelnyi, Serhii Bilohub
Lighting – Valerii Borovyk, Hennadii Umanets
Installation – Yan Denenfeld, Valerii Shevchuk, Kostiantyn Davii, Kostiantyn Perebyinis, Stepan Karas, Mykhailo Nahornyi
Administrative work – Valentyna Bolila
Maintenance:
Oleh Ivashchenko, Maksym Shevchuk, Roman Doilnitsyn, Petro Petrenko, Serhii Chernenko, Valerii Dolbnia, Oleh Borysenko, Kostiantyn Lebid, Artem Zaporozhets, Vladyslav Bovsunovskyi, Olena Shekhovtsova, Tetiana Artemenko, Liudmyla Hudz, Svitlana Tkalich, Tetiana Besiedina, Natalia Levadniuk, Svitlana Tetiura