Ukraine: Arts and Cultural Heritage

An extensive interactive site that highlights both intangible cultural heritage and physical heritage sites. Wild-hive beekeeping, oral music traditions, arts and crafts and other elements of intangible heritage can be explored here. Also includes embedded 3D tours of physical sites like wooden churches, open air museums, and opera houses.

Blog by Konstantin Akinsha that photodocuments damage and destruction of cultural sites in Ukraine. The author is an art historian, curator and scholar on expropriated art. Last update June 12, 2022.

Backup Ukraine lets anyone become an archivist. You can scan buildings and monuments as full 3D models using just your phone. And store them in an open, secure online archive — where no bombs can reach.

Includes Ornek, a Crimean Tatar ornament and knowledge about it; Tradition of Kosiv painted ceramics; Cossack’s songs of Dnipropetrovsk Region; Petrykivka decorative painting as a phenomenon of the Ukrainian ornamental folk art

Culture of Ukrainian borscht cooking was today inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, composed of representatives of the States Parties to the UNESCO Convention.

Regularly updated list of journalists killed, cultural sites damaged, and educational institutions damaged. Updated weekly.