Exhibition entitled “10 Years of Polish-Ukrainian Conservation Activities at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv”

Ukraine
2017
exhibition
cemetery, conservation works, exhibition, Lviv, lyczakowski cemetery

o projekcie

The year 2008 marked the beginning of a large-scale Polish-Ukrainian conservation project to be carried out at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv. Thanks to the funding provided by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the past 10 years of works carried out at the cemetery bore fruit in the form of restoring over 80 extremely valuable (in terms of both historical and artistic qualities) gravestones bearing witness to the history of the multinational Lviv.

2017

In the years 2008-2012, the conservation works were carried out by the Society for the Preservation of Historical Monuments from Warsaw.  Since 2017, the project has been managed by the Cultural Heritage Foundation.

The Polish-Ukrainian project is run in collaboration with the Directorate of the Lviv City Council for the Protection of the Historic Environment.

The conservation supervision is managed by: Yuriy Ostrowskiy from Lviv National Academy of Arts (Ukraine) and Prof. Janusz Smaza from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (Poland).

On account of the round – tenth – anniversary of the commencement of conservation works at the Lychakiv Cemetery, a special exhibition documenting the initiative and presenting the monuments that were restored over the years was organised. The photographs were displayed on boards in the back of the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv. The exhibition ran until 24 August 2017.

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