Museum workers from Donetsk region took part in the intensive training "Saving Cultural Heritage in Time of War: Stabilizing Damaged Collections".
The training in Kyiv was organized by UNESCO Ukraine, the Agency for Cultural Resilience (ACURE), the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity, the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design, the National Research and Restoration Center of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, with the support of Cultural Emergency Response.
The event was aimed at enhancing the professional training of specialists in the field of cultural heritage protection and providing practical knowledge on responding to emergencies related to damage or threat of loss of museum collections in the context of armed conflict.
A special feature of the training was that the participants worked on a real site with objects that had recently been recovered from the rubble of one of the buildings of the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv Academy of Arts, which was destroyed by a Russian missile.
The participants learned about current international approaches to documenting, evacuating and stabilizing damaged cultural heritage objects, sorting and cleaning them, listened to a lecture by a biologist on the treatment of mold-infected objects, and practiced practical skills with restorers in fabric, graphics, metal, painting, ceramics and stained glass.
Participation in such events is an important component of increasing the institutional resilience of museums, which lays the foundation for further cooperation in the preservation of national cultural heritage in times of war.