Museum of Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera (London)
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The Museum of the Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera is a museum in London , Great Britain , dedicated to the figure of Stepan Bandera (1909-1959), one of the most famous ideologists of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, the leader of the OUNR (1940-1959). The first museum in honor of Stepan Bandera in the world.
Museum of Liberation Struggle named after Stepan Bandera | |
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Type | museum |
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Country | Great Britain |
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Arrangement | London , Great Britain |
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Address | 200 Liverpool Road, London |
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Founded | 1962 ( 1979 ) |
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Site | ounuis.info/museum.html |
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History
Since Stepan Bandera's personal belongings and documents related to the national liberation struggle of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century ended up in Great Britain, there was a need to preserve these monuments. The preparatory work for the creation of a museum dedicated to these pages of the history of Ukraine was conducted by the Ukrainian Publishing Union (which was the legal owner of the exhibits), the Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain and the Ukrainian Information Service (London). The museum opened on October 20, 1962 in the building of the Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain , Nottingham . The Chairman of the Control Council became V. Oleskiv (UIS), later the 4th Chairman of the OUN(r) leadership. Before that, on September 29, the Control Board of the museum created the Museum Board, which held its first meeting on the same day .
In 1978, it was moved to London, where it was reopened on October 6, 1979. The museum is located in the building of the Ukrainian Information Service.
Description of the exposition
The museum stores the clothes in which Bandera died at the hands of KGB agent Bohdan Stashynskyi , earth from Bandera's grave in Munich , a posthumous mask and a sculptural portrait by M. Chereshniovskyi . The exposition also includes Stepan Bandera's personal belongings and books, as well as copies of uniforms of UPA soldiers and the compass of UPA Commander-in-Chief Roman Shukhevych . Among the documents are underground publications of various topics, in particular, distributed with the help of the Underground Mail of Ukraine , publications of the Ukrainian Press Service , various informational messages.
The anti-Nazi resistance of Ukrainians in the museum is represented by portraits of members of the OUN-prisoners of Auschwitz and drawings of scenes from this concentration camp (the author of the drawings is Petro Baley, an Auschwitz prisoner, the author of prose works, ideological works, the father of the composer Virk Baley ) .
Artifacts from later times include embroideries made by female political prisoners of Soviet camps in the 1970s..
Cooperation
The Union of Ukrainians in Great Britain together with the Bandera Museum in London contributed to the opening of the first major exposition in the National Museum of the History of Ukraine on the occasion of the anniversaries related to Bandera's life. For her, the museum handed over some of Bandera's personal belongings, photographs and documents. The veterans of the liberation movement, Stephan Romaniv , then head of the OUNR and museum curator Vasyl Oleskiv also took part in the opening of the exhibition .
Volodymyr Muzychka, a member of the General Council of the Union of Ukrainians of Great Britain, donated copies of "Words of Stepan Bandera" (from the 1950s) and "Words of Dmytro Dontsov " (1964) to the archival fund of the Union of Ukrainians of Great Britain.
In 2009, the Ternopil Museum of Political Prisoners received a copy of Stepan Bandera's death mask along with copies of rare photos of OUN members . The initiator of the transportation of the mask was the Ternopil organization of the Youth Union of Ukraine.