Branch Manager:
Olena Oleksandrivna Lodzynska
Phone:
380 (44) 234-12-04
Email:
museum60@ukr.net
Year of creation:
2012
Address:
Kyiv, Olesya Honchara St., 33A
Field of activity:
History, Literature, Art
Work schedule:
The Museum of the Sixties – a branch of the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv – was created on the initiative of a public organization with the same name. The basis of the museum’s collection is made up of private collections of Ukrainian sixties and participants in the resistance movement to Soviet totalitarianism in the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition presents works of art by talented and original artists (paintings, graphics, sculpture, bookplates, appliques, posters), examples of samizdat, a thematic library (Ukrainian and foreign publications), manuscripts, unique photographs and documents, personal belongings of the sixties, including those made by them in prison. In total, the collection includes up to 30 thousand items of museum value. The museum explores and highlights the theme of the Ukrainian sixties as a link in the national liberation struggle of Ukraine in the 20th century.
The list of topics presented in the exhibition is extremely rich. These are historical prerequisites, the socio-historical atmosphere in Ukraine in the late 1950s – early 1960s; periodization and differential characteristics of different groups of the sixties; literature about the sixties (at that time in Ukraine and the diaspora); a modern view of the sixties (documents, articles, publications); the activities of the Creative Youth Clubs (Kyiv, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Odesa); youth literary and artistic associations; samizdat, works of art, political and journalistic materials, reprints in the West; the literary work of the sixties; the significance of the diaspora; individuals and organizations that disseminated their work; the resistance movement in Ukraine in the 1960s – 1980s; the activities of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and its defeat, the activities of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union (which later became the Ukrainian Republican Party) in the 1980s; materials from the court cases of the sixties; imprisonment in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, camps, and exile; connection with the all-Union dissident movement, dissidents – Lithuanians, Latvians, Jews, Russians, and others (in particular, V. Nekrasov, G. Halych, B. Okudzhava, I. Ratushynska, N. Sadunayte); wives of political prisoners; repressions among those who supported and shared the ideas of the sixties; sixties artists, musicians, theater and film figures; the importance of the sixties in the social renewal of the 1980s-1990s, the struggle against the USSR, and the building of the Ukrainian State.
The museum’s exposition is built on original documents and photographs of the sixties, memorial items of heroes, highly artistic works of artists. It is difficult to imagine how a generation of patriots of our state can be raised without the poems of Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Vasyl Stus. Nothing can compare to the powerful graphics of Alla Horska, artistic ceramics on historical themes, deeply philosophical graphics and paintings of Halyna Sevruk, artistic works of Afanas Zalyvakha and Veniamin Kushnir, etc. The museum constantly organizes thematic photo-documentary and art exhibitions, literary and musical evenings, book presentations (including those of contemporary Ukrainian artists), and meetings with living heroes of the sixties resistance movement. In addition to a sightseeing tour, the museum also offers thematic excursions (literary, artistic), which require prior registration. From May to November, the museum offers a walking tour of the city center “Kyiv of the Ukrainian Sixties”.
Martial Law
Since May 2022, the museum has been adapted to wartime conditions. The main collections of works of art, valuable objects and documents are now not available for viewing, but the staff will offer you alternative exhibitions that will help you delve into the atmosphere of the Ukrainian 1960s.
