Military museum.
With the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine, it became essential to develop new approaches to displaying historical events in Ukrainian museums.
Considering the need to create a museum narrative that would promote to spread the
knowledge of the history of Ukraine in a general historical context, the formation of historical memory and shared values of Ukrainian society, as well as national and patriotic
education, the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Reserve decided to reorganize the Museum of the History of the Korsun-Shevchenkivska Battle into a Military museum.
The purpose of the exposition in the Military museum is an objective reflection of military history
of Ukraine from 1914 to the present in the context of global armed conflicts and struggles
for an independent Ukrainian state from national and state positions.
The theoretical basis of the exposition will be the latest research on the history of Ukraine and
museology, the subject base will be fund collections of the Reserve and artifacts, which are informative and representative.
We will create a flexible exposition with the possibility of adding new showpieces.
Grouping and interpreting artifacts and supporting materials will make based on complex-thematic, historical-chronological, and problematic
methodological principles. The thematic-expository method will become the main one during the creation of the exposition. To increase the attractiveness and informativeness of the exposition during the formation of the museum space, information technologies (augmented reality) will be used.
The exposition of the Military museum will be created in 11 halls on the third floor of the wing –
architectural monument of the last quarter of the 18th – 19th centuries; the exposition square will be 370 m 2 .
Two themes will be described in the first hall of the military museum: “The World War I. Ukrainian dimension” and “Armed warfare during the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921 and the liberation struggles of the 1920s and 1930s for forming and preserving the independent Ukrainian state”. The main exhibits include documents, photographs, and weapons.
The next four exhibition halls will be dedicated to the history of World War II. Ukrainian dimension. We plan to submit a significant number of original showpieces – weapons, equipment, uniforms, personal belongings, photos, and documents that will make a complete system of the representation of events. Such aspects as military expediency, political and military significance for warring parties of the Korsun-Shevchenkivska battle (1944 year) will be presented using museum methods. Considerable attention will be paid to the display of the national resistance movement. Separate exhibition complexes will represent such essential topics as “Mobilization of local people to the Red Army and the fate of recruits” and “Everyday life of a civilian population during the war.”
Part of the sixth hall will disclose two topics: “Revolution Of Dignity as a turning point on the way to becoming a democratic Ukraine state” and “Korsun Region during the Revolution of Dignity .”Their basis will be artifacts exhibited at the “Ukraine – above all!” exhibition.
russian-Ukrainian war will be represented in the following exhibition halls by showing the participation of the natives and residents of the former Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi district in the war. We plan to reveal the historical, military, and socio-humanitarian aspects of war in which Ukraine defends its territorial integrity, state sovereignty, and the European future. The subject basis of this exposition section will collect personal belongings, photos, documents, equipment, and uniforms of Ukrainian soldiers – participants in the russian-Ukrainian war, as well as the remains of weapons.
The last hall of the exposition is the Pantheon of Glory of the Korsun people who died in the russian-Ukrainian war, protecting the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and European future of Ukraine.
The proposed exposition of the military museum is a pilot project that can be changed based on modern scientific research and new objects given to the fund collections of the Reserve, as well as requests from the public.
