Ivankiv
Shevchenka street, 15
Ivankiv Historical and Local Lore Museum is a historical and local history museum in the center of the community of the Kyiv region in Ivankiv village, where collections of materials and objects from the history, culture and personalities of the former Ivankivsk district were displayed and stored. At the end of February 2022, the museum was burned by the Russian occupiers during the Battle of Ivankivsk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.The museum was opened on February 21, 1981. It was located in a former manor house, rebuilt in Soviet times. An ancient Russian settlement was located on this territory in the X—XIII centuries.Before the destruction by the Russian occupiers, 410 exhibits were stored in it. Exposition sections: “Fauna and flora of the region”, “Pre-war period”, “World War II”, “Chernobyl disaster”, “Ivankov modern”. There was an exhibition of portraits and paintings. The museum held meetings with famous compatriots, museum lessons, literary lessons, historical and local history conferences. The pride of the museum was a collection of works of art by a Ukrainian folk artist in the genre of “naive art”, winner of the National Prize of Ukraine named after him. VOL. G. Shevchenko Maria Primachenko (1908—1997). In 2016—2018, the museum premises were extensively renovated, the exposition was rebuilt on the basis of the collection, which has expanded significantly since the creation of the museum.25 (according to some reports, on February 27, 2022, during the Battle of Ivankov, the museum, together with paintings by Maria Primachenko and other exhibits, was burned down — according to testimony local residents, by rocket fire from a Russian fighter [2]. However, some paintings were saved: according to the great-granddaughter of the artist and the head of the charitable foundation dedicated to her legacy, Anastasia Primachenko, a local resident broke the window of the building, which was already smoking, and took out about 10 works [9]. According to some reports, it was possible to save some of the other exhibits. In total, there were 25 paintings by Primachenko [9] in the museum. In response, Minister of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko asked to strip Russia of its membership in UNESCO. [10] On February 28, the US National Committee of the International Council of Museums issued a statement condemning the “deliberate destruction (by fire)” of the museum, which “highlights the tangible and irreversible impact of this immoral and Unprovoked war.”