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Херсонський обласний художній музей імені Олексія Шовкуненка | |
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Established | 27 May 1978[1] |
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Location | Kherson, Ukraine |
Type | Art museum |
Website | https://artmuseum.ks.ua |
The Kherson Art Museum (also known as the Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum;[2] Ukrainian: Херсонський обласний художній музей імені Олексія Шовкуненка, romanized: Khersonskyi oblasnyi khudozhnii muzei imeni Oleksiia Shovkunenka) is an art museum in Kherson, Ukraine.[3][2] It is housed in Kherson's former city hall building.[1] The museum opened on 27 May 1978.[1]
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the museum was looted by Russian troops while Kherson was occupied. A short time before the city was liberated by Ukrainian forces, the Russians stuffed almost 15,000 works of art carelessly into trucks and buses.[4] The collection was moved to the Central Museum of Taurida in Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea, where the museum director Andrei Malgin claimed that the move was made to ensure the safety of the artworks until they could be returned to the rightful owner.[5] The Kherson police opened investigation into what they saw as a war crime.[4] The deliberate Russian destruction and looting of more than 500 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites has been considered by Ukraine's Minister of Culture as cultural genocide.[6][7]
References
- ^ a b c "The Russian military seized the Kherson Art Museum and appointed its "director"". July 21, 2022.
- ^ a b Pavlenko, Iryna (July 20, 2022). "Shovkunenko Regional Art Museum, in Kherson, Captured by Russian Occupiers - Kyiv Post - Ukraine's Global Voice". Kyiv Post.
- ^ ""We don't have any provinciality complexes!" | The Day newspaper".
- ^ a b "Before Retreating From Kherson, Russian Troops Emptied One of Ukraine’s Top Museums of Nearly 15,000 Objects", artnet news, 14 November 2022
- ^ Beardsworth, James (November 10, 2022). "Kherson Museum Art Collection Looted Ahead of Russian Retreat". The Moscow Times.
- ^ ""It's cultural genocide": Ukraine's Culture Minister trying to salvage the country's artifacts, Euronews, 13 September 2022
- ^ "The War of Aggression Against Ukraine, Cultural Property and Genocide: Why it is Imperative to Take a Close Look at Cultural Property", Blog of the European Journal of International Law, 31 March 2022
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