Problems of the National fund of Ukraine Preserving in Conditions of Political Crisis and Military Conflicts

Abstract

Purpose of the article. The purpose set by the author of the article in the study of this topic is to outline the issue of preservation and return of museum collections from the temporarily occupied territories to the cultural heritage of Ukraine. The relevance of the article is due to the current needs of optimizing state policy in the museum sphere, creating effective government programs to preserve the national museum fund. Reforms in this sphere of public life are generated by the need to create a single state unified system of accounting for museum objects from all museum collections in Ukraine. The scientific novelty of the research is that the research proposes conceptual approaches to preserving and restoring museum values in the event of armed conflict and confrontation. Research Methodology. The implementation of the research task is subject to a theoretical and methodological basis, which includes a set of methods, among which the primary is in the form of collecting information on the level of research topic, studying sources, author's observations and experience, as well as secondary methods used for the purpose of processing and analysis of the obtained information. The absence of a single state consolidated information database makes it impossible to determine the extent of the loss of museum values on the occupied territories. On the example of the occupied Luhansk's museums author proves that the issue of preservation of cultural monuments of Ukraine should become urgent for authorities of all levels, and the museum community should be involved in discussing these problems, creating and implementing fundamentally new ways and measures to preserve the museum funds of Ukraine, considering the huge loss of national cultural values. The compilation and publication of collections catalogues of individual museum institutions and the Museum Fund of Ukraine as a whole should become a strategic direction of the state policy in the field of culture and museum sphere, as a preventer of the final loss of ...