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Support for Ukraine - Initiatives to help protect and care for cultural heritage in Ukraine during and after the conflict
Organisations and initiatives in Ukraine
- The Center to Rescue Ukraine's Cultural Heritage is maintaining a Facebook page to provide updates on its activities and its appeal to international organisations, museums, and cultural institutions for help with sourcing equipment and materials
- ICOMOS Ukraine
- Blue Shield Ukraine
- Restart Ukraine - a project to gather resources started by the architects' union in Ukraine
International organisations and initiatives
- Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - a digital project to web-archive all available digital information about Ukranian Heritage, as even digital records are also under threat
- Europa Nostra and Global Heritage Fund have set up a joint crowdfunding campaign to support the defenders of Ukraine’s endangered heritage
- The Network of European Museum Orgnanisaionts (NEMO) is collecting and monitoring support activities and initiatives organised by museums for Ukrainian colleagues and citizens
- CHIEF Cultural Heritage International Emergency Force, based in Italy, is currently gathering materials and planning to send a shipment to Ukraine
- JPI CH's Heritage Research Hub is collating information such as grants, calls and funding opportunities that could be helpful to Ukrainian researchers in these difficult times
Practical advice
- ICOMOS and the Corpus Vitrearum have worked together to produce guidance on securing stained glass in wartime. Please contact us for a copy of this document in English or Ukranian.
Other Initiatives
- University of Lincoln is supporting Ukrainian students and academics to continue their study and work, and to live in a welcoming and supportive environment
- Conservation Resources UK are working on a list to donate specialist products to conservation professionals in Ukraine. If you want to buy anything to add to this, they are giving a special discount on the order and ship to Ukraine for free. Please call them or email them directly to do this.
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