Military Women in Museum Exhibitions in Lviv (Ukraine): Past Experience and Modernity

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https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v21i2.4304

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museum, military women, war, exhibition, Ukraine, Lviv

Abstract

Ukrainian women received military experience during the First and Second World Wars and in the contemporary Russian-Ukrainian War in services such as the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS), the Ukrainian Galician Army (UGA), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the Soviet Army, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (UAF). This paper analyzes the representations of Ukrainian women's military experiences during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in museum exhibitions in Lviv (a city in Western Ukraine). The authors conclude that the experiences of women veterans of the First and Second World Wars frequently remain neglected, creating an incomplete picture of the past and continuing to shape representations of women’s roles in the current Russian-Ukrainian War.

Author Biographies

Olena Hanusyn, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Olena Hanusyn is an assistant at the Department of History, Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage. PhD. She researches the history of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, everyday life, as well as relations between women and the social position of women in Ukrainian society in the nineteenth century. Other research interests include the place of women in the military in Ukrainian museum narratives and public discussions. During 2020-2021, she was a participant in the international project "Voices" from the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.

Yuliia Kurdyna, Lviv Polytechnic National University

Yuliia Kurdyna is a Senior Lecturer of Department of History, Museology and

Cultural Heritage of Lviv Polytechnic National University. She received Ph.D. in historical sciences in 2016. Her primary research interest is the history of glass from the fifteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century on the territory of Western Ukraine and the representation of historical glass in museums. Other research interests include the multidimensionality of historical and cultural heritage, social responsibility for cultural heritage, and museum narratives. During 2018-19, she was  the executor in the Ukrainian-Lithuanian grant project 'Museum as a space of polylogue of dominant and alternative narratives'.

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Published

24.07.2023

How to Cite

Hanusyn, O., & Kurdyna, Y. (2023). Military Women in Museum Exhibitions in Lviv (Ukraine): Past Experience and Modernity. Museum & Society, 21(2), 44–50. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v21i2.4304

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2023): Dispatches from Ukraine

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