The head of the UGСC took part in the opening of the Museum of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1919

On January 22, 2009, in Kyiv the Museum of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1919 opened. So far the display occupies one large room in the former premises of the Central Council (Kyiv City Teacher’s House). In the future it is promised to extend the museum. In the displays of the Museum of the Revolution are pictures, documents, and personal items of heroes of those times, reports Channel 5. On Tuesday the museum was blessed by representatives of the Greek-Catholic and Orthodox Churches. From the UGCC His Beatitude Lubomyr, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, and Rev. Fr. Oleksa Petriv, Head of the Secretariat of the Major Archbishopric, performed the blessing.  The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory undertook the creation of the exposition of the Museum of the Ukrainian Revolution in 2008. The basis of the concept of the exposition of the museum are the principle of the perseverance of the historical memory of the Ukrainian people and state-creating traditions of the time of the Ukrainian revolution, 1917-1919. The center of the exposition is the national emblem of the UNR [Ukrainian National Republic] and the Fourth Universal of the Central Council, with which the complete state independence of the UNR was proclaimed on January 22, 1918. Parallel with the Museum of the Ukrainian Revolution 1917-1919, on January 20, 2009, in the Kyiv Teacher’s House the exhibition "Educational renaissance of the time of the Ukrainian revolution, 1917-1919," devoted to those days, opened. It was blessed by the Head of the UGCC, at the invitation of Vasyl Kremen’, the president of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. Documents exhibited at the exhibition testify that folk education in the period of the Ukrainian revolution 1917-1919 existed and developed not as an isolated, second-rate sphere of public life, but as a component part of democratic development, the leit-motif of which became the national revival of the Ukrainian people. Mr. Kremen' spoke about this during the opening of the exhibition. In his words, the period 1917-1919 was extraordinarily fruitful in the context of the establishment of national education in Ukraine. In his turn His Beatitude Lubomyr talked about the importance of education, for it gives the opportunity to preserve and develop the achievements of previous generations. According to the Head of the UGCC, education is important for the state and for the Church, for the two main tasks of the Church are to teach and to sanctify.

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