(MENAFN-UkrinForm) First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska summarized the effects of her international relations cultural projects on the appearance of Ukrainian audio guides at monuments around the world and the opening of Ukrainian shelves in libraries around the world.
This was reported by the presidential press service, Ukrinform reports.
“While the empire seeks to destroy not only Ukraine, but also Ukrainian culture, we are doing our best to spread this culture. This is yet another form of our resistance – a cultural, value-based one. Through the books and scholarly works, not just through the news, the world will learn how much Ukraine has given it and understand us better. As its integral part, without which, like without others, the world is unthinkable,” Olena Zelenska summarized.
In 2023, a total of 20 audio guides in Ukrainian will be introduced in 15 countries, including:
The Netherlands: the Maurits Cornelis Escher Museum at the Lange Voorhout Palace, the museum of the collector and patron Abraham Bredius and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; Albania – the National Museum of Medieval Art; Ireland – Trinity College Library; Denmark – Copenhagen Hop On Hop Off Bus & Boat Tour; Poland – the Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Nicolaus Copernicus House at the Toruń District Museum; Italy – the Borghese Gallery in Rome and the Royal Museums in Turin; Sweden – Nordic Museum – Museum of Ethnography and Culture and Viking Museum in Stockholm; Finland – boat to Suomenlinna Castle Island and Helsinki Old Town; Israel – Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center; Australia – the National Museum of Australia; Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan National Museum of Art; Cyprus – the Archaeological Museum; in the United States, the Illinois Holocaust Museum; Austria: the Imperial Treasury; and Greece, the Benaki Museum in Athens.
Since its launch in 2021, the commission to introduce audio guides in Ukrainian, initiated by Olena Zelenska, has introduced audio guides in Ukrainian in 43 countries: Turkey, France, Denmark, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Austria, Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, Rwanda, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, North Macedonia, Spain, United States, Czech Republic, Latvia, Montenegro, Italy, Lithuania, Georgia, Portugal, Thailand, Hungary, United States, Switzerland, Brazil, Slovakia, Norway, Qatar, Estonia, Indonesia, Netherlands, Albania, Ireland, Poland, Israel, Finland, Australia and Cyprus.
In addition, within the framework of the project, in cooperation with the Petra Regional Development Tourism Authority of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, brochures in the Ukrainian language are presented to visitors of the Kingdom’s most famous ancient site, Petra, a landmark listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. of the seven wonders of the world.
“Thank you very much to our embassies and all our foreign partners. This is mandatory not only for the millions of displaced Ukrainians who were driven out of the country because of the Russian war, but also for all those who value freedom and a relaxed culture. Ukrainian is the language of resistance to aggression and the struggle for identity, for life and the right to exist,” Zelenska stressed.
The allocation of the First Lady’s Ukrainian Library has also grown in 2023 with the opening of Ukrainian libraries in 10 countries: Spain, Armenia, the United Kingdom, Serbia, the United States, Romania, Singapore, Denmark, Mexico, Argentina and, for the first time, at UNESCO headquarters.
Last month alone, libraries were opened at the Ricardo Güiraldes Central Library in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in 3 locations in Denmark: Ikast, Gentofte and Skive.
By the end of 2023, the allocation of the Ukrainian Library under the patronage of the First Lady of Ukraine had been implemented in forty-five countries and in one foreign organization (more than 190 shelves, more than 47,000 books): Austria, Turkey, Lithuania, Slovakia. . , Sweden, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Greece, Latvia, Finland, Jordan, Croatia, Lebanon, Japan, Belgium, Albania, Republic of Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Norway, Moldova, Qatar, Slovenia, Azerbaijan. , Bulgaria, Portugal, South Africa, Cyprus, Namibia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Indonesia, Armenia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Serbia, United States, United States, Singapore, Mexico, Denmark, Argentina and UNESCO Headquarters.
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