The press release mentions: “These Ukrainian museums are distinguished by their dedication and commitment to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage, national identity and its citizens towards the challenges of current atrocity and war destruction.”

As Olga Honchar comments on the results of the museum conference and the award program:

““The Heroes of the Heritage” nomination was created for us and given to all Ukrainian museums that had applied. Because it was decided that Ukrainian museums can't be put in the category with museums where there is no war. Because there there are museums that have 5 million euro for a year and peace around them. 

I was a member of jury from Ukraine. The way it works is that the jury goes to the museum that submitted the application and evaluates its work, team, project, communication, etc. This year's winners are very modern museums, it is clear that there are large investments, and they look like places where you want to go - they have a very high institutional level, service, content, exposition, and cafes. These are museums designed for a large flow of people. Two jury members visited Lviv - Franko House and Shevchenkivskyi Hai, museum workers from Khmelnytskyi and Dnipro came to the Territory of Terror museum, others presented their museums online, and 11 jury members were also on Zoom.

It was very important for us to organize a day of Ukrainian museums, when each museum talked about its activities. Even Mr. Myroslav Kastran, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia, said that it was useful and informative, and colleagues from other countries did not know much of what we told them, because local media write more about the front, refugees, etc.

Two museums, the Franko House and the Yavornytskyi National History Museum in Dnipro, were represented at the museum market, where everyone exchanges their products, gets to know each other, and talks about their projects.



It was nice that the Minister of Culture of Serbia came to shake our hands and thanked us for what we do.”