An Exercise in Defending Democracy: When nothing is safe anymore - Inclusion and museum work in Ukraine

Inclusive practices in museums in times of war: How can institutions continue to provide access to culture for people from different backgrounds, with different needs and different realities? What new forms of community, care and solidarity emerge when inclusion is conceived and practised under extreme conditions? What challenges need to be overcome, what priorities need to be set?

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian museum professionals and cultural workers have been faced with questions like these. In our online event ‘When nothing is safe anymore – Inclusion and museum work in Ukraine’, we invite you to join us in a discussion about the role of museums in promoting solidarity and empowerment.

Guests:

• Oksana Zhmurko from the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, Leopold Levitsky Memorial Art Museum in Lviv
• Kateryna Hryshchenko from the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro

They will provide insights into their work and show what cultural spaces can make possible even under wartime conditions.

Moderation: Konstantin Akinsha, art historian, curator and journalist

Afterwards, we will open the discussion for questions, joint reflection and networking. The Zoom event will be held in German and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation.

Please register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/UD7M51UrSA2uzg32RsuH-w#/registration 

After registering, you will receive the Zoom link for the event.

An event as part of the series “An Exercise in Defending Democracy” organised by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in cooperation with the Agency for International Museum Cooperation and the Ukrainian museum network OBMIN.