The Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum ( uk, Іванківський історико-краєзнавчий музей) was a history museum in Ivankiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, which was destroyed during the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, leading to the potential loss of over twenty works by the artist

Maria Prymachenko Maria Oksentiyivna Prymachenko ( uk, Марія Оксентіївна Примаченко; – 18 August 1997) was a Ukrainian folk art painter, who worked in the naïve art style. A self-taught artist, she worked in painting, embroidery and ...

History

The Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum opened on 21 February 1981 and was located on an archaeological site dating back to the Middle Ages. The museum included several exhibitions on Chornobyl, Afghanistan and the Second World War. From 2016 to 2018, the museum was re-developed to accommodate expansions made to the collection since its foundation. In 2021, the museum hosted an exhibition on Ivankiv's Jewish heritage.

Collection

The museum's collection included works by the artist

and textile art by

Hanna Veres Hanna Ivanovna Veres ( uk, Га́нна Іва́нівна Ве́рес; 21 December 1928 – 11 June 2003) was a Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of ...

and her daughter, Valentina. Pryamchenko's career began as part of the Ivankiv Co-operative Embroidery Association. The museum's collection also included natural science specimens and archaeological objects.

Destruction

Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum, 2022-06-16 (1)

On 25 (according to other data, 27) February 2022, during the

Battle of Ivankiv The battle of Ivankiv was a military engagement that was part of the Kyiv offensive in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of the town of Ivankiv which is the location of a key crossing over the river Teteriv. The combatants were ...

, a military engagement in the

, the museum was burned down after Russian bombardment, with the apparent loss of over twenty works by the artist

. However, according to a social media post by journalist Tanya Goncharova, local people were able to save some of Prymachenko's works from the fire. According to an interview with Prymachenko's great-granddaughter, Anastasiia Prymachenko, in ''The Times,'' ten of her works were saved by a local man who entered the museum whilst it was on fire. Over 650 of Prymachenko's other works are held in the collection of the National Folk Decorative Art Museum. Reactions to the reputed loss came from the Director of the Vyshhorod Historical and Cultural Reserve, Vlada Litovchenko, who described the loss as "irreparable" in a social media post. In response, the Minister of Culture for Ukraine, Olexandr Tkachenko, requested that Russia be deprived of its UNESCO membership. On 28 February, ICOM-US issued a statement condemning the "wilful destruction" of the museum, which "illuminates a tangible and irreversible impact of this immoral and unprovoked war".

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In Ivankiv (Kiev region), Russian invaders burned down the local history museum
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