This website tells about phase II of the National Holodomor-Genocide Museum construction project

The anniversary XX International Economic Forum was held in Lviv on 16 September 2021. This year this powerful national and international platform, built to present Ukraine and the Lviv region, has gathered 1,500+ participants, executives from Ukrainian businesses and leading international companies and representatives of nearly 20 countries’ trade missions.

One of the IEF key points was development of creative economy and, accordingly, cooperation between businesses and cultural and creative industries. Ivan Vasiunyk, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Holodomor Museum International Fund, presented the Holodomor Museum Project to the Forum participants as a priority and high-status cultural project in independent Ukraine, implemented on the basis of public-private partnership.

Ivan Vasiunyk also stressed that the entire Ukraine should definitely take part in creating the Holodomor Museum:

The motivation that each of us belongs to the Ukrainian state is the driving force for businesses and citizens to participate, no matter how high it sounds. At the same time, we have to be more pragmatic for a project of such scale to be successful. Unfortunately, business is most often seen as the last resort, and, to a certain extent, is involved under the consumer principle “business will give money because it has to”. The win-win strategy works only in one case: when the State and business are equal partners. Our cooperation model implies a clear division of roles and responsibilities including financial ones.

Undoubtedly, the State plays a key role in the Project and despite the pandemic and geopolitical challenges has been absolutely meeting its obligations to build the Holodomor Museum premises since 2017.

And the Fund, the civil society and benefactors have undertaken to involve the world leaders in the field of architectural planning in the designing of the main exhibition, and to finance these projects. And thanks to this responsibility, the world’s best designers are involved in the Project, representatives of Nizio Design International, Poland and Haley Sharpe Design, UK. The support the Holodomor Museum Fund received from businesses over three years has enabled us to implement the Project as actively as possible, and now we envisage maximum involvement of business through the fundraising campaign Road to Truth”.

Summing up, Ivan Vasiunyk noted that the main exhibition design and implementation would find international resonance, first of all. In particular, we all are facing a challenge, the European Museum of the Year Award, which has been designating the best newly created museums in Europe since 1977.

Photos courtesy of the XX International Economic Forum organisers.

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