On February 4 in Kyiv, the official presentation of the exhibition «Return of Memory. Kherson Collection» will take place. The project is dedicated to stolen art, which is now presented in the format of museum art prints.
This was reported on the Shovkunenko Museum’s page.
The exhibition reveals the story of the looting of the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko by the Russian army and the efforts of art historians to restore the memory of lost cultural heritage.
The exhibition will open at 17:00 at the Museum and Exhibition Center of the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv (7 Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street).
The project is implemented with the support of the Kherson Regional Art Museum named after O. Shovkunenko, the Museum of Kyiv, the creative group Vivid Fusion and information partners.
Recall that in total more than 10,000 works by Ukrainian, Russian and European artists were stolen from the Kherson Art Museum by the occupiers.
Currently, 106 stolen works have been identified by museum staff. Of them – 105 works are in occupied Crimea,