Home

Home Schedule
Conferences Round Tables
All-Ukrainian Competition of Students Works Annual Seminar for History Teachers Study - Trip"Teaching the Holocaust - Perspectives and Approaches", GHWK, Berlin Study - Trip "History of the Holocaust in Ukraine and Poland" Study - Trip “The Fate of Jewish Communities of Ukraine and France: A Comparison“ Educational Fellowship at Yad Vashem Authority Teaching Materials against Antisemitism, Discrimination and Xenophobia (OCSE/ODIHR) Other projects and completed projects
Information-pedagogical bulletin "Lessons of the Holocaust" Scholarly Journal "Holocaust and modernity" (2005-...) Bulletin "Holocaust: Contemporary Research" Scholarly publications Educational publications Library of the Holocaust Memoirs Publications of the project "Protecting Memory"
Our Staff Contacts
Commemoration Genocide of the Roma of Ukraine Babyn Yar No Child History Kyiv Stones
Book announcements Catalog Online

Sign on the Shield exhibition project

insidethegatesOn August 25, at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War the opening of the exhibition "Sign on the Shield" was held. The presentation of the project took place in the exhibition center of the museum, in the new exposition space. 

Sign on the shield" is a museum exhibition closely tied to the national-scale project "Trident of the Motherland", which aims to replace the Soviet symbols on the shield of the Motherland monument with the Ukrainian national symbol, the Trident.  In a broader context, the exhibition correlates with the overall redefinition of the War Museum and the monument as its dominant feature.

The exhibition features more than 200 authentic artifacts covering more than a thousand years of Ukrainian history. The temporary exhibition reflects the most interesting facts from the history of the Trident, focusing attention on the most important stages of its formation as a state coat of arms. This is a peculiar response to current social issues related to the reproduction of the Trident on the shield, and highlights the connection of this process with the renaming of the Motherland monument and the Museum in general.

Especially for the realization of the project, the Museum has prepared a new exposition space in the Exhibition Center, which consists of three halls. Each of them presents the relevant section of the exhibition.

Section “State Sign” is dedicated to the past of the Trident as a dynasty sign of the Kyiv princes, as well as the establishment of the sign of Prince Volodymyr the Great in the high status of the State Coat of Arms of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. A hereditary link between statehood symbols of the princes’ age and the period of the Ukrainian state building in the early 20th century is emphasized.

More details about the exhibition

Announcements

More

Latest News

  • To the 82nd anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy. Educational materials

    The death of innocent people always leaves a deep mark on history. September 29-30 are the days when Ukraine and the world commemorate the victims of Babyn Yar. These days remind us how important it is to remember the past. The memory of Babyn Yar reminds us that it is important to keep the world from sinking into the darkness of hatred and cruelty. The preservation of peace and coexistence, respect for human rights and diversity is a task to which we must pay special attention as we seek to prevent similar tragedies in the future.

    [More]
  • About the war. Interview with Ukrainian Teachers Project

    Since the full-scale invasion of russia, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies has always supported and continues to support our colleagues from different parts of Ukraine.

    [More]
  • Kyiv Defense Chronicles

    Historian and ethnopolitical scientist Vitaliy Nakhmanovych, with the financial support of the Museum of Kyiv History, created the website Kyiv Defense Chronicles, which features a daily chronology of the Battle for Kyiv from February 24 to April 10, 2022.

    [More]
  • The Library Support Program successfully completed

    We are pleased to announce that we have successfully completed a program to support libraries of all levels in the country. The program lasted more than two months. During this time, 340 libraries across the country received publications from the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies!

    [More]
  • How to teach to remember? Discussion of historians on Ukrainske Radio

    Here is Anatolii Podolskyi's discussion on the Ukrainske Radio program "Today. This Afternoon" together with military historian Vasyl Pavlov.

    The conversation is dedicated to the problems and challenges of teaching history during the current war. How can we resist russian propaganda against us? Why are myths harmful? How to teach to remember? How to keep the memory of heroes and victims of the present and past alive?

    [More]
More
Top