Report on work — 2022

MUSEUM "TERRITORY OF TERROR"

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Report on work — 2022

MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS YEAR

Like many cultural institutions of our country, we started 2022 with caution, but hope.

We made plans and hoped to implement many projects with our partners, conduct hundreds of tours and receive thousands of visitors.

The events that took place after February 24 and continue until now have significantly adjusted our tasks and goals for this year, but certainly did not allow us to fold our hands. Instead of the usual thematic events and excursions, we have to fight together with the whole country and we do it in the field that we know best.

Every month was special for us. We did what was necessary, joined in everything that brings our joint victory closer. We would like to share with you the calendar of our achievements for the year 2022, which also happened thanks to your active participation and support.

TEAM OF THE MUSEUM "TERRITORY OF TERROR"

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JANUARY 03 A meeting with European youth and the Na de Dam Memorial Theater and - an online performance for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day; "Act of Remembrance" jointly with Post Bellum-Ukraine and Theater Na de Dam (Amsterdam); Film screening organized by HillelLviv NGO for Holocaust Remembrance Day;; Opening of the temporary exhibition "Network of Memory" in Barak No. 2 (as part of the all-Ukrainian project "Network of Memory").

FEBRUARY 04

Museum employees participated in city-wide shooting exercises; Systematized the database from the funds of the #Unheard oral history project. We started synchronizing the database with data on Google Drive; We held a working meeting with the Lviv National Academy of Arts led by rector Vasyl Kosiv; On the first day of the war, all museum employees were at work: they taped the windows, bought basic necessities, a generator, and stocked up on water.

MARCH 05 Creation of the "Museum Crisis Center" initiative; Museum employees actively participated in volunteer initiatives and projects; Started cooperation with international organizations that provide support to cultural institutions for the preservation of cultural heritage; Joined the "Lviv Meets" initiative — conducted free excursions for internally displaced persons; The process of conservation of the museum's permanent exhibition has begun.

APRIL 06

We continued the excursions as part of the "Lviv Meets" campaign. Joined the conversation "Cultural Front"; We helped with the evacuation of the Luhansk Regional Museum of Local History (Starobilsk), which now operates on the basis of the Museum;; Received first aid from the International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas — ALIPH: equipment and things needed to preserve exhibits and funds; We took part in The London Book Fair, where we presented the work of the museum.

MAY Director Olga Honchar took part in the MARKK Museum of World Cultures and Art, within the framework of Ukrainian Days, to the International Day of Museums; Took part in the International Day of Museums. They held a conversation "Lviv - Starobilsk: two museums one war. Solidarity and cooperation" and demonstrated the presentation of the "Lost Childhood" platform, conducted an excursion: "A place as a witness of terror"; We resumed interviewing the storytellers of the #unheard project and set up the exhibition "Lost Childhood: Heard and "Unheard" on the square in front of the Museum.

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JUNE 08 Stabilized the work of the institution: recorded the unheard, conducted excursions within the framework of the "Walks in Lviv" project; The museum signed support agreements with The International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas ALIPH; The main exposition of the museum is preserved, and the main funds are moved to a safe place for storage; The restoration of a part of the wall painting in the premises of the former Tikwat Zion synagogue, where the Museum office is now located, has been completed.

JULY 09

The head of the Museum, Olha Honchar, took part in "Museum rear: mutual aid in the war" - a conversation with museum workers from Lviv, Dnipro and Odesa; Conducted an excursion "Lviv: life in the territory of terror" for students from different cities of Ukraine who came to Lviv as part of the Invisible university for Ukraine program; Thanks to the help from ALIPH, we received window blinds to protect the Museum complex and the office.

AUGUST 10 Museum director Olha Honchar took part in the 26th General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) (Czech Republic) and the KUNST OG KULTUR I UKRAINA forum in Arendalsuka (Norway); Signed an agreement with Museum Berlin-Karlshorst e.V. as part of the project "Ensuring the preservation of documents and archival funds of Ukrainian partner institutions of the Network of Assistance to Survivors of National Socialist Persecution" — creation of a 3D tour and digitization of exhibits

SEPTEMBER 11 The museum has resumed work. On September 20, the exhibition of art photographer Vera Blanch called "TRIBUNAL" was opened; Museum Director Olha Honchar took part in the 14th Summer Museum School held in Koper, Slovenia; Digitization and creation of 3D and 2D models of museum exhibits has begun; The employees of the Museum took part in the European Heritage Days, where they talked about the recording of oral history evidence.

OCTOBER 12 The Museum team has undergone fire safety training; The museum, together with the public organization Post BellumUkraine, is starting the project of testimonies "How we fight"; Thanks to the help of House of Europe, individual protection kits were purchased and formed for all employees; On October 24-27, part of the team took part in the workshop "War in Ukraine: Challenge for oral history" (Berlin), where they presented the concept of the project on the documentation of the RussianUkrainian war.

NOVEMBER 13

The project to digitize the Museum's exhibits has reached its final stage.

Work has begun on creating a virtual 3D tour-excursion of the Museum; We met at the Museum with the American writer and publicist David Riff and the British journalist of The Guardian and writer Ed Woolliam; They told about the work of the Museum and our projects to artists relocated from other parts of Ukraine; We finally received a powerful diesel generator from ALIPH.

DECEMBER 14 Opened The exhibition "Museum of Ukrainian Victory", dedicated to the experience of documenting and digitizing cultural heritage in the conditions of war; The online course "How we will remember" has been launched, where our Olha Honchar and Olga Mukha are lecturers and will talk about memorial practices; The Okhtyr Local Lore Museum became the pilot episode of the new project "Wounded Culture", which is being implemented together with our partners. The project is dedicated to documenting the testimonies of museum workers and digitizing cultural heritage.

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MAJOR EVENTS OF THE YEAR

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THE LUHANSK REGIONAL MUSEUM OF LOCAL HISTORY WAS EVACUATED

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THE COLLECTION "THE NAKED ROOM" IS STORED IN THE MUSEUM

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A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE "TERRITORY OF TERROR" MUSEUM

THE MAIN PROJECT OF THE YEAR A grassroot initiative created by Olha Honchar, culturologist, and director of Territory of Terror Museum, which is implemented in partnership with public organizations "Insha Osvita" and "New Museum".

During its existence, the initiative supported about 1,000 museum workers in the amount of UAH 2.4 million.

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2022 IN NUMBERS

988 13

VISITORS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR

BUSINESS TRIPS

112 623₴ THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS RECEIVED

34 137

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EXCURSIONS WERE CONDUCTED MEDIA MENTIONS

≈90 000€ INVOLVED GRANT AID

179 13

EXHIBITS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE MUSEUM'S FUNDS INTERVIEW IN THE PROJECT #UNHEARD

283 809 TOTAL REACH OF THE FACEBOOK PAGE

PLANS FOR 2023

This year, we not only implemented, but also made plans for the future. In 2023, we want to continue the work we started this year. First of all, we continue to record the witnesses of the #unheard oral history project, and also form a joint "Victory Collection" with the Luhansk Regional Museum of Local History.

We want to share our experience with museologists, cultural practitioners and artists, and that is why we joined the development and reading of the online course "How we will remember".

The museum crisis center headed by our Olha Honchar has achieved notable success in helping museum institutions and museum workers of Ukraine affected by the war. We continue to look for opportunities and cooperation with international organizations to make the Museum even better.

For next year, we have already planned the implementation of the projects: "How we fight" (together with Post Bellum-Ukraine) and "Wounded culture" with Aspichi.

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THANK YOU!

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS Museum Berlin-Karlshorst,House of Europe, Pilecki Institute Berlin, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Ukraine, The International alliance for the protection of heritage in conflict areas ALIPH, Polish Support Center for Culture in Ukraine, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa, Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego, Stołeczny Konserwator Zabytków, Fundacja Dziedzictwa Kulturoweg, Komitet Pomocy Muzeom Ukrainy, Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (Hamburg), International Council of Museums – ICOM, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Humboldt Forum, ERSTE Foundation, Fundacja Dobra Wola, University of Agder, Forum slovanskih kultur

UKRAINIAN PARTNERS NGO "New Museum", Network of Memory - Netzwerk erinnerung, Skeiron, Aspichi, International Renaissance Foundation, Department of Culture of the City of Lviv, Post Bellum-Ukraine, , Museum Crisis Center, NGO "Insha osvita", Heritage Rescue Headquarters, Department of Protection of the Historical Environment of Lviv, State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ZMIN foundation, Museum of Folk Architecture and Life in Lviv named after Klimentii Sheptytskyi, City Palace of Culture named after Hnat Hotkevich, CHARITY ORGANIZATION "Cultural Heritage Fund of Ukraine"

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST We are grateful to our donors, partners, friends who helped and continue to help the Museum. We thank our visitors, your feedback helps us become better. We thank the Department of Culture of Lviv for their understanding and guidance.

But most of all, we are grateful to the defenders - for the opportunity to live, work and create in free Ukraine. We are preparing many projects for 2023, but we are waiting for one thing the most - the victory of Ukraine.

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Our contacts:

+380962580589

territoryterror@gmail.com

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