Bonus: Interview with Ukrainian conservator Anastasiya Serdyukova

This is a bonus episode in English about the situation in Ukraine from a conservator’s perspective.  On the 25th of March we talked to Anastasiya Serdyukova from Ukraine who is doing her internship at the National museum in Stockholm.  In the interview Anastasyia gives us a gripping image about what it’s like for her living in Sweden right now and having family members in Ukraine.  She has been in contact with museum professionals in Ukraine and has been following media about what is happening to her country’s cultural heritage and she gives us a report about that.  She also reflects on the future and how important knowledge in concervation is and will be the day the war is over. The museums that Anastasiya mentions are  -Historical local museum in the village of Ivankiv, Kyiv Region *with the art of Marija Prymatsjenko -National Kharkiv Art Museum *with the dramatical call -Kipchak stone statues known as ‘Stony Women' are exhibited in front of the Historical Museum in Dnepropetrovsk. * Protected with sandbags -Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv -Mariupol Art Museum Named After Arkhip Kuindzhi - St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery which was built in 1108 was destroyed by Russians in 1937, was then reconstructed in 1998 -Russian Pavilion in Venice Biennale  Contact: info {@} tereshallman.com