We invite you to a public interview with Lesia Hasydzhak, the Head of the Holodomor Museum, as part of the VOICES Exhibition of The Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

On April 3, a public interview with Lesia Hasydzhak, PhD in History, Acting Director General of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, museologist, will take place as part of the VOICES Exhibition. The conversation will be moderated by Anastasiia Platonova, a cultural critic and curator.

VOICES is a multimedia space of The Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation. The museum has collected and stored more than 100,000 first-hand stories about the war in Ukraine. The exhibition includes discussions and public interviews with experts in war documentation, oral history of Ukraine, and preservation of national memory.

Key topics for discussion:

• What is the peculiarity of museums dedicated to preserving memory? What is their role, especially during a full-scale war? How do these museums build their relationships with their audiences?
• How has the current war changed the way we talk about tragic events in Ukrainian history and the present?
• How do museums work with the memory of the events and experiences of the recent war?
• What institutional transformations and re-awareness are Ukrainian museums experiencing during the war?

Lesia Hasydzhak started working at the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in 2015 as Deputy Director General, in 2016-2017 and since July 2022 she has been Acting Director General. In 2019-2021, she was the Director of the International Charitable Foundation of the Holodomor Museum. She is a member of ICOM, a former member and Deputy Head of the Museum Council within the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.

In 2007-2015 Lesia worked at the NGO "Ukrainian Centre for Museum Development" as an editor of the Museum Space web portal, coordinator of the information and analytical direction, the All-Ukrainian rating campaign "Museum Event of the Year", and the Support Programme for Museum Workers; she was also the initiator and curator of a specialised stand of museum publications at the Book Arsenal.

When: April 3, 2024, at 5:30 p.m.
Where: Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv, 7 B. Khmelnytskyi St.

Admission is free with confirmed registration at The Museum of Civilian Voices at https://forms.gle/wZPmwMN18HV6ebNi8.