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First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska reported on the Ukrainian audio guides, which started working in two museum institutions in the Netherlands.
An audio tour in Ukrainian is available at the Escher in The Palace museum (Escher in Het Paleis). It is housed in the Lange Voorhout Palace, which was built in 1764. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898–1972) is an outstanding Dutch graphic artist known all over the world. His works are distinguished by an unusual vision of the world and play with the logic of space. About 120 works of the artist are presented in the museum, which represent almost his entire creative path.
The Ukrainian-language audio guide was also launched in the museum of Abraham Bredius – a great Dutch art critic, art historian, publicist, art collector, and philanthropist. Among the exhibits of the museum are the works of such famous artists as Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Aert van der Neer, and Meindert Hobbema.
The project to introduce Ukrainian audio guides in the world’s major sights has been implemented under the patronage of Zelenska since 2020 and already has 56 audio tours in Ukrainian in 36 countries.
Only last year, the Ukrainian guides appeared in the National Museum of the Czech Republic, the Immigration Museum of the State of São Paulo (Brazil), Schönbrunn Palace (Austria), the Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve (Azerbaijan), St. Martin’s Cathedral (Slovakia), on the Oslo City Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour (Norway), in in the National Museum at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Lithuania), the Uluwatu Temple in Bali (Indonesia), and the National Museum of Qatar.
“For almost a year of the war, when the Russian invaders bombed and looted so many of our museums, we learned to especially appreciate art: so fragile, it resists war and barbarism by its very existence, it gives hope that the human spirit will always overcome destruction and brute force. And, of course, the world heritage should speak Ukrainian – the language of the country fighting for human values. Our project does not stop because Ukrainian cannot be stopped,” Zelenska said.
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