Kyiv city

Lavrska street, 3

National Museum of the Holodomor

The highest mission of the Museum is to warn society about the crime of genocide by accumulating and disseminating knowledge about the Holodomor.The Holodomor Museum teaches to resist hatred and violation of human rights. Through its activities, it cultivates the protection of human dignity and democratic values and prevents the crime of genocide, cultivating in citizens tolerance, a sense of moral responsibility in the face of challenges to all norms of law and freedom.The museum plays an important role in the civic education of the younger generation, forming awareness of the need preservation of the Ukrainian state as one of the main means of protection against genocide.An important task of the Holodomor Museum is to remind of the Ukrainian identity, which was tried to replace the Soviet one. The museum acts as an intermediary in the process of transmitting memories and information about the Holodomor, demonstrating the connection of generations of the Ukrainian nation, and preserves the memory of the attempt to destroy it. Knowledge about the history of the Holodomor provided by the museum raises questions of morality — nurturing respect for the memory of the victims, empathy and rethinking of one's own thoughts A view of life that is of the highest value.