Museum Crisis Center

On March 3, after the first week of full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, Olha Honchar, director of Lviv museum “The Territory of Terror” asked on Facebook if there were any funds supporting Ukrainian artists and museums in wartime. She later updated her post: “Meanwhile, we start making such a fund ourselves.” In partnership with the team of the NGO Insha Osvita, Olha launched a new NGO "New Museum" a.k.a. the Museum Crisis Center, a grassroots initiative aimed at helping museum workers in the emergency regions and evacuating artworks. The next day, first donations were made to the newly established fund. The main task of the center is the rapid financial, psychological and organizational support of museum workers, many of whom found themselves face to face with the war and without means to support themselves.