Ukraine, Kharkiv Art Museum damaged. But the works are safe

Bombings targeting the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine in recent days have also damaged the City Art Museum, the city’s main museum institution. “Our museum,” the institute made known on social media last March 7, “crosses under difficult circumstances. The shock wave of an explosion broke the glass of most of the windows. The works were not damaged. All those that were on display in the halls were moved to safer places. However, a drastic change in the temperature and humidity regime will subsequently have an adverse effect on their state of preservation.”

At the time of the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, the Kharkiv Art Museum had two ongoing exhibitions: one, which began in September 2020 and runs until April 30, 2022, dedicated to the students of Il’ja Repin, one of the greatest Russian artists of the second half of the 19th century, a native of ÄŒuhuïv, near Kharkiv, and another, which began on October 6, 2021 and runs until May 31, 2022, dedicated to the centenary of the Kharkiv State Academy of Art, with eighty works by students who made the history of the institution. The Kharkiv Museum of Art is one of the largest in Ukraine: its collections contain about 25,000 works, including paintings, graphics, sculpture, decorative arts, and applied arts, covering a time span from the 15th to the 21st century, with works mainly of Ukrainian and Russian art, but also with a significant core of Western art, and also a permanent exhibition of folk art of Ukraine. Western works include works by Italian artists and their workshops (Timoteo Viti, Ludovico Mazzolino, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Guido Reni, Francesco Furini, Pietro da Cortona, Andrea Sacchi) and Dutch artists (Joos van Cleve, Peter Bruegel the Younger, Jan van Goyen, Ferdinand Bohl, David Teniers).

The museum currently, concludes the brief note released by the institute, “needs the help of volunteers” and materials such as “polyethylene film and plywood or boards to reinforce damaged windows.”

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Ukraine, Kharkiv Art Museum damaged. But the works are safe

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