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
- 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
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.
