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Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of pieces, including avant-garde oil paintings and Scythian gold. Experts say it is the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II, intended to strip Ukraine of its cultural heritage.
One morning in late October, Russian forces blocked off a street in downtown Kherson and surrounded a graceful old building with dozens of soldiers. Five large trucks pulled up. So did a line of military vehicles, ferrying Russian agents who filed in through several doors. It was a carefully planned, highly organised, military-style assault — on an art museum.
On Thursday February 2 at noon, Carolyn Law will present “Listen to Your Heirlooms: Your Family’s Treasured Objects Have More to Say Than Meets the Eye.” <br/><br/>This presentation, hosted at the Ellwood House Museum, will introduce some basic principles and techniques of material culture research in the context of family heirlooms. Law will discuss strategies for investigating, recording, and preserving the meaning of family heirlooms using 21st-century resources. <br/><br/>Attendees are invited to bring an item of their own for discussion.<br/><br/>...
"The goal of Putin's war... is not only the subjugation of the Ukrainian people, but also the destruction of their identity," archaeologist Pavlo Shydlovskyi told Newsweek.
Among the war crimes committed by Russian occupiers in Ukraine, crimes against cultural heritage play a special part. Destruction of heritage sites, artillery strikes on educational and cultural facilities, looting of museums and archives… — Ukrinform.