The Supervisory and Expert Boards of the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide formed

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine has approved the composition of the Supervisory and Expert Boards of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide. The new bodies will help strengthen the museum’s management system, enhance its research work and expand cooperation with Ukrainian and international experts, according to the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.

The Supervisory Board includes eleven representatives from Ukrainian public associations, international organisations, the Ukrainian diaspora and the academic community. Its members will serve for five years. The Supervisory Board will oversee the museum’s activities, provide recommendations on its development, help to secure additional resources, monitor compliance with the Statutes and approve specific management decisions in accordance with the law. The members of the Board will also elect a Chair, Deputy Chair and Secretary from among their number.

“The memory of the Holodomor is part of Ukrainian identity and our responsibility to future generations. We must preserve it and convey to the world the truth about the genocide of the Ukrainian people. The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide must operate to the highest standards of transparency and academic integrity. The Supervisory and Expert Boards include distinguished Ukrainian and international experts who will help the museum to develop, strengthen international cooperation and remain one of the key centres for research and the preservation of the memory of the genocide of the Ukrainian people,” said Tetiana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine and Minister of Culture of Ukraine.

The Expert Board will serve as the museum’s permanent advisory body. It will consist of twelve Ukrainian and international academics and experts, appointed for a term of five years. They will work to develop the museum’s research, collections, exhibitions, publishing, educational and methodological activities, as well as promote international academic cooperation and the study of documents from Ukrainian and foreign archives.

The Supervisory Board will hold its first meeting in the near future, elect its leadership and adopt its rules of procedure.

Members of the Supervisory Board of the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide

1. Valerii Yuriiovych Vasyliev, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences;

2. Liudmyla Volodymyrivna Hrynevych, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences;

3. Valeriia Volodymyrivna Huievska, Art Director of the state-owned enterprise National Cultural, Art and Museum Complex ‘Mystetskyi Arsenal’;

4. Hennadii Hryhorovych Yefimenko, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Candidate of Historical Sciences;

5. Kateryna Andriivna Kulai, Director of the Odesa National Art Museum;

6. Liubomyr Yaroslav Lutsiuk, Professor Emeritus of Political Geography at the Royal Military College of Canada, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto;

7. Tymish Oleksandrovych Martynenko-Kushlianskyi, an expert on public policy, communications, historical memory and public activities;

8. Daria Mattingly, historian, senior lecturer in European history at the University of Chichester;

9. Iryna Anna Mytsak, strategic communications specialist, editor;

10. Frank Edward Sysyn, historian;

11. Anastasiia Mykolaiivna Cherednychenko, President of ICOM Ukraine, historian;

12. Yaryna Yaroslavivna Yasynevych, a social activist and specialist in communications and public history.