Organisations and initiatives in Ukraine
- The Center to Rescue Ukraine's Cultural Heritage is maintaining a Facebook page to provide updates on its activities and its appeal to international organisations, museums, and cultural institutions for help with sourcing equipment and materials
- ICOMOS Ukraine
- Blue Shield Ukraine
- Restart Ukraine - a project to gather resources started by the architects' union in Ukraine
- Blue Sky: The Ukrainian Conservation Forum on Telegram - an initiative to preserve Ukraine's cultural heritage by building conservation knowledge and expertise in Ukraine. To get involved, please join Telegram, then send an email to the moderator Mykyta Yavorsky at [email protected] who will reply with further detailed instructions.
UK-based organisations and initiatives
- Icon has set up a series of three Basecamp teams to co-ordinate support efforts by conservators, mainly in the UK. There are three teams: material aid; emergency gudiance; and sponsoring refugess (in the UK). Please contact us if you would like to join this collaborative project.
- University of Lincoln is supporting Ukrainian students and academics to continue their study and work, and to live in a welcoming and supportive environment
- Conservation Resources UK are working on a list to donate specialist products to conservation professionals in Ukraine. If you want to buy anything to add to this, they are giving a special discount on the order and ship to Ukraine for free. Please call them or email them directly to do this.
International organisations and initiatives
- Blue Shield International has launched a simple spreadsheet to track conservation shipments to Ukraine, as Ukrainian colleagues have expressed that they are finding it difficult to keep track of shipments – some items are duplicated, while other requests not being answered.
- ICOM Poland launched an initiative to support Ukrainian museum professionals arriving in Poland as Refugees
- Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) - a digital project to web-archive all available digital information about Ukranian Heritage, as even digital records are also under threat
- Europa Nostra and Global Heritage Fund have set up a joint crowdfunding campaign to support the defenders of Ukraine’s endangered heritage
- The Network of European Museum Orgnanisaionts (NEMO) is collecting and monitoring support activities and initiatives organised by museums for Ukrainian colleagues and citizens
- CHIEF Cultural Heritage International Emergency Force, based in Italy, is currently gathering materials and planning to send a shipment to Ukraine
- JPI CH's Heritage Research Hub is collating information such as grants, calls and funding opportunities that could be helpful to Ukrainian researchers in these difficult times
- The Rathgen Research Laboratory has launched the Rathgen Heritage Science Scholarship for refugee Ukrainian (Russian/Belarusian) emerging professionals
- World Monuments Fund (WMF) launched a Ukraine Heritage Response Fund
- Europa Nostra and Global Heritage Fund, in partnership with ALIPH and with the vital collaboration of the Heritage Emergency Response Initiative (HERI), launched the Heritage Solidarity Fellowship for Ukraine
Practical advice
- ICOMOS and the Corpus Vitrearum have worked together to produce guidance on securing stained glass in wartime. Please contact us for a copy of this document in English or Ukranian.
