Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period

Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period (Russian: Музей-архив переходного периода, Ukrainian: Музей-Архів Переходової доби) was a propaganda museum whose establishment was sanctioned by German occupants on March 26, 1942.^[1]

Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period

(Russian: Музей-архив переходного периода Ukrainian: Музей-Архів Переходової доби)
Established	April 1942 (1942-04)
Dissolved	October 1942 (1942-10)
Type	National history museum
Director	Oleksandr Ohloblyn

The museum existed from April – October 1942. Its expositions demonstrated "achievements" of the German occupation and crimes of Joseph Stalin's regime. The museum's director was the famous Ukrainian historian Oleksander Ohloblyn who used this opportunity to organize an exhibition about cultural monuments destroyed by Bolsheviks.^[2] Several historians, such as Oleksandr Hruzynsky, Svitozar Drahomanov, Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko etc. were as appointed scientific advisors of the museum. Some of the city archive fonds were transferred to the museum.^[3]

However, the propaganda effect of the museum was very low (about 20 visitors daily) and the museum was soon closed.

References

1. "World War II Documents from the State Archive of Kiev Oblast". Gale. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
2. Berkhoff, Karel C. (2008). Harvest of Despair - Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780674262003. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
3. "Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine named after H. Pshenychnyi (TsDKFFA of Ukraine)". State Archival Service of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

Literature

• Part 2: From Bolshevism to the New Order: Museum-Archive of the Transitional Period in Kiev, 1942.
• Музей-Архів Переходової доби. К. 2002 (in Ukrainian)