Not every Ukrainian, remembering the name of Pavlo Hudymov, is likely to have an association with the most famous domestic music band. However, Paul is a landscape architect based on his education, he is the curator of artistic projects, and in the broad sense – a person who is a pioneer of art in various manifestations. That is why his first trip to Zhytomyr museums made him a huge impression, from which the whole development strategy of the city was born
“I am ashamed to admit, but I first visited Zhytomyr museums only last year. Having traveled hundreds of museums in the world, I did not know that such a range of different and unexpected collections and collections could be found at a distance of just over one hundred kilometers from the house ”
“The initiator of the first trip was Kyiv-Zhytomyr citizen Lyudmila Zubko, who founded the NGO” Zhytomyr! ” Make it louder! ” The very name is very precise, and I also wanted to increase the cultural volume of Zhytomyr culture in Ukraine. We gathered to talk and decided that each of our small professional team could contribute to cooperation with the city’s institutions in order to take a fresh look at the situation and the possibility of more rapid interaction for the renewal of cultural infrastructure ”
“For the first time, I discovered for me in Ukraine the largest rural art museum in Kmytov, the Zhytomyr museums of astronautics and local lore, which for a long time, judging from the collection, has overcome this name and is ready to give new powerful museum projects. But the last drop was the visit to the regional theater on “Viy”. The city where such a living theater deserves great attention and respect. The young director, Peter Avramenko, feels free and fantasizes in everything. Everything is accurate and appropriate. The viewers are delighted with the quality work, not the commercial theatrical simulation ”
“Returning to Kyiv, I shared my impressions of Zhytomyr visits, and most of the friends asked me to take them with them next time. Such a trip was improvised by the company of our friends, and politicians and historians, artists, patrons, collectors, farmers and businessmen – in short, a motley company plus children who decided on a winter Sunday to go and change – joined it. city and breathe other cultural air. But our requested sample has always focused on the topic of renewal, a modern look, and new approaches in museums. Because these obvious issues are especially clear when people go deep into the museum theme on foreign trips and want elementary signs of time to extrapolate to the situation in the museum culture at home ”
“Then there was a flow of meetings and discussions with museums, community, activists, officials, and experts. Architects Andrei Khir and Oksana Senkevych, cultural manager Kateryna Semeniuk, joined us from the very beginning, actively engaged in communicating the process of Tetyana Parfentieva, who heads the regional department of culture, and Lyudmila Zubko as one of the drivers of the program »
“The result of the first stage of our research and communication was the presentation of the direction of development of Zhytomyr as a cultural center. The meeting with the participation of museum workers, the governor, the mayor and the chairman of the regional council should have been short, but almost two hours they all preferred to speak about how to finally move on to a clear and relevant process of developing culture as a new industry, how to make the city and the area attractive and meaningful, as work today with values. Few did not express their interest in the process of changing and updating cultural institutions. Additional suggestions were made to keep the issue of a new perspective on the village centers, which today often collapse and to develop such a software prototype is important at this stage of the project ”
“Therefore, we have a chance at the first stage to create a full-fledged art gallery on the basis of the museum of local lore, and on the basis of the Magistrate Museum of Nature and History, to increase the exhibition area of the museums, to create a new stock building, and soon put a bridge to the implementation of the new building of the Museum of Nature, which would the opportunity to talk about the museum quarter in the city center »
“In parallel, it is necessary to organize system seminars for museum workers and cultural managers, to help communities implement the project of the center of modern culture. Save unique mosaics in the late Modernism architecture. And go to the ambitious Museum of Cosmonautics, which will become an even bigger center of attraction for the audience from all over Ukraine ”
“As a result, the formed group finalizes proposals with museums and proceeds with concrete projects, which are proposed to be implemented without delays. For a holistic view of the situation, a balance has been formed between local specialists and invitees. The preliminary plan of priorities and goals, which will work immediately in many directions from the social sphere to the tourist flows, is developed ”
Translated by Aliona Matushevich
