Explosions Near the Museum
Looted by Russian occupational forces between 24-26 October, the Kherson Museum of Local Lore used to house Southern Ukraine’s largest and oldest collections of antiquities. The museum featured more than 173000 objects, spanning seven thousand years, from Scythian gold to World War II weaponry. Two weeks before Kherson was liberated by the Ukrainians, Russian occupational forces enacted a strategic theft, stripping centuries of Ukrainian history from the museum/region.
The sound of shellings and missile strikes was recorded during filming inside the museum on December 12, less than two kilometers away from russian-occupied territory.
HD video, 14 min, 2023
Narrator: Clemens Poole
Text editors: Clemens Poole, Kateryna Ulianova
Translator: Anna Halas
Sound recordist: Natalia Avramenko
Sound mastering: Serzh Avdeev
Colorist: Vadym Khudolii
Graphic designer: Ostap Yashchuk
Curator: Bjorn Heldhof
Project manager: Ilona Demchenko
Associate producer: Andrii Lytvynenko
Information about the museum's collection was provided by Denys Sikoza.Stills from video
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