Inclusive practices in museums in times of war: How can institutions continue to provide access to culture for people from different backgrounds, with different needs and different realities? What new forms of community, care and solidarity emerge when inclusion is conceived and practised under extreme conditions? What challenges need to be overcome, what priorities need to be set? Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian museum professionals and cultural workers have been faced with questions like these. In the online event ‘When nothing is safe anymore – Inclusion and museum work in Ukraine’, the Bauhaus-Archiv, together with the museum agency and OBMIN, invites you to join a discussion about the role of museums in promoting solidarity and empowerment.

Oksana Zhmurko from the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, Art and Memorial Museum of Leopold Levytsky and Kateryna Hryshchenko from the Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro will provide insights into their work. They will show what cultural spaces can make possible even under wartime conditions. Afterwards, we will open the discussion for questions, joint reflection and networking. Art historian, curator and journalist Konstantin Akinsha will moderate the exchange. The Zoom event will be held in German and Ukrainian with simultaneous translation.

The event takes place as part of the series “An Exercise in Defending Democracy” organised by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in cooperation with the Agency for International Museum Cooperation and the Ukrainian museum network OBMIN.