Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period
Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period (Russian: Музей-архив переходного периода, Ukrainian: Музей-Архів Переходової доби) was a propaganda museum whose establishment was sanctioned by German occupants on March 26, 1942.[1] The museum existed in April - October 1942. Its expositions demonstrated "achievements" of the German occupation and crimes of Joseph Stalin's regime. The museum's director was a famous Ukrainian historian Oleksandr Ohloblyn who used this opportunity to organize an exhibition about cultural monuments destroyed by Bolsheviks. Several historians, such as , , Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko etc. were appointed scientific advisors of the museum. Some of the city archive fonds were transferred to the museum.[2]
However, the propaganda effect of the museum was very low (about 20 visitors daily), and the museum was soon closed.
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Literature[]
- Part 2: From Bolshevizm to the New Order: Museum-Archive of the Transitional Period in Kiev, 1942.
- Музей-Архів Переходової доби. К. 2002 (in Ukrainian)
- History of Kyiv
- Museums in Kyiv
- History museums in Ukraine
- Museums established in 1942
- Eastern Front (World War II)
- Defunct museums
- 1942 establishments in the Soviet Union