National Museum of History of Ukraine swaps ancient history displays for depictions of horrors of war through artefacts retrieved from formerly occupied areas
, Oleksandr Lukianov went to work – but it was anything but a normal day at the office.in Kyiv, where he is senior researcher, hurriedly started to dismantle the exhibits, sending some objects to safer locations in the west of the country, and storing others in the basement. The group of curators ended up living in the building for two months.
,” he said, referring to the nearby towns that Russian forces occupied in the early weeks of the invasion.Photograph: Ed Ram/The Guardian “I thought it would never change,” he said, remembering the reassuringly immutable rooms of the museum where he had worked for seven years. “But here we were.”On 7 April, in the sunshine of a warm spring day, Lukianov and a small team of colleagues set off to Irpin, from which the Russians had withdrawn little more than a week before. Their mission: to collect new artefacts for the museum. “First in was the army, then it was the legal experts – and then it was us,” he said.
The objects Lukianov and colleagues collected that day – including half-destroyed signage from a pharmacy, a Russian soldier’s boot, a 1970s dosimeter for measuring radiation levels as the, and Russian ration packs – now form the basis of a display on the museum’s ground floor.
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