The Museum of Ukrainian Gramophone Recording has opened in Kyiv at the Singing Field (41 Lavrska Street), the Department of Culture of the Kyiv City State Administration reported on Sunday.
“The museum’s exposition tells the story of the history of gramophone recording. The collection consists of more than 400 items of the main fund of Ukrainian music on various sound carriers… The museum plans to expand, conduct cultural research, and organize expeditions dedicated to various aspects of the musical culture of Ukraine and the world,” the statement said.
The museum is open on Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00, admission is free.
The National Museum of Folk Architecture and Ukraine’s Daily Life plans to create a museum of Crimean Tatar culture, said director of the Crimean House Akhtem Seitablayev.
“I am very grateful that another future step in order for us to know as much as possible about each other, to be able to adequately present the culture of the Crimean Tatars (because culture is perhaps one of the most durable tools for identifying ourselves) will be a museum of Crimean Tatar culture, which we, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ukrainian Institute, the Ministry of Culture, dream of building on the territory of the Pyrohove ethnography museum,” said Seitablayev at the opening of the exhibition “Loyalty to oneself is not a crime” at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Ukraine Volodymyr Borodiansky has announced the creation of a new institution in 2020 – the Museum of Modern Art, the press service of the ministry has said. “It will include several parallel processes: the concept of the museum, its material component and, at the same time, filling of the collection. This means that the state must buy art works, which are then to be displayed and stored in this museum,” said Borodiansky.
According to the Ministry of Culture, the creation of the museum is planned from 2020 and will last up to four-five years.
“The problem of our contemporary art is the physical absence of a museum that would accumulate the works of our outstanding masters. I am convinced that separate halls should be dedicated to outstanding Ukrainian artists such as Ivan Marchuk and other outstanding contemporary Ukrainian artists,” Borodiansky added.
