On Friday, October 6, the Kyiv City State Administration announced that the twelve municipal museums in Kyiv had received special equipment as part of a joint project to protect cultural property. The International Alliance for the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones (ALIPH) offered financial support to this project, providing EUR 215,000 worth of protective equipment to the city’s museums.
More information can be found at Interfax-Ukraine, the Ukraine News Agency.
Photograph of Kyiv History Museum, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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