The Role of Museums in Creating National Community in Wartime Ukraine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11046266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elżbieta Olzacka (0000-0002-8025-9199, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1028-1044 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2020.39 |
| OpenAlex | W3046358183 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 20 |
In the aftermath of the violent Revolution of Dignity (2013/2014) and the subsequent war in Donbas (2014–), a heroic story about the new beginning of a “united, Ukrainian nation” began to emerge. Shaping this new narrative are new museum projects devoted to Ukraine’s developing history. This article examines the process of these new institutions’ formation, the content of created exhibitions, and the activities conducted therein. It focuses on the role of the museums in activating, unifying, and integrating both the Ukrainian national community and civil society. This article is based on a qualitative analysis of materials collected during seven research stays in Ukraine, from June 2017 to August 2019, and focuses on four cases–Ukraine’s First ATO Museum in Dnipro; the Museum of the Heavenly Hundred in Ivano-Frankivsk; the Ukrainian East exhibition in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv; and a project of the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv. The examined institutions are presented not only as places for gathering artifacts but also as laboratories of civic activism, participation, and dialogue
Art · Art history · Dignity · Exhibition · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Ukrainian · Visual arts · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museology · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
Som en skapelseakt
Curating Unity in Diversity
Redefining crisis in museums
Ukrainian Museums' Exhibitions and Educational Programmes During the First Six Months of War
War and ‘museum front’ in a digital era
War memorialization and nation-building in Ukraine
Third War of Independence? The Anti-Colonial Dynamics of Ukraine’s Politics of Memory after 2014 on the Example of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv
Seeing the present through the past
Warring Memory
Instant memories of the Russian war against Ukraine – mapping the virtual Meta History
Exhibiting Atrocity
Museum Culture
Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine
Heroes and Villains
The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building
The Balkans
The Maidan in Movement
National Identity in Ukraine
The Donbas in 2014
Memory and Language
Myths and Memories of the N1ation
Identity and political preferences in Ukraine – before and after the Euromaidan
Studying identity in Ukraine
Shedding Russianness, recasting Ukrainianness
Palestinian Commemoration in Israel
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |