National reserve St Sophia of Kyiv joins global initiative #MUSEUMFROMHOME
In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection, Ukraine has been quarantined. Therefore, all Museum institutions in the country are closed.
The team of the national reserve "St Sophia of Kyiv" apologizes to everyone who had the desire to visit the reserve, and joins the global museum initiative #MuseumFromHome.
As part of this initiative, the national reserve "St Sophia of Kyiv" offers to visit St. Sophia Cathedral — a world-famous monument of architecture and monumental painting of the XI century, which is part of the monuments of the reserve, using a virtual 3D tour.
The pages in social networks and the reserve's website, make on a daily basis the posts about the history of the reserve and its monuments; it tells how to spend time in quarantine; videos of lectures by reserve employees are posted, and so on.
After the quarantine, the Museum staff will be happy to welcome everyone to the national reserve "St Sophia of Kyiv". In the meantime, support the #StayAtHome challenge!
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https://st-sophia.org.ua/uk/golovna/ https://st-sophia.org.ua/uk/golovna/ (version for the visually impaired) |
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* National Reserve "St Sophia of Kyiv" is a national-level historical and architectural reserve in Ukraine. It was founded in 1934 on the territory of the St. Sophia Monastery. This Museum complex in the center of Kyiv unites 77 architectural monuments.
The greatest building of the National Reserve "St Sophia of Kyiv" is the St. Sophia Cathedral-the oldest Christian Church, fully preserved in the Eastern Slavic territories. The Cathedral has beautiful long-standing architecture and the world's most complete ensemble of authentic mosaics and frescoes of the XI century. (260 sq m of mosaics and 3000 square meters of frescoes).
The reserve's activities were highly appreciated by the global community: in 1987 The international jury of the Hamburg Foundation (Germany) awarded the reserve the European Gold Medal for the preservation of historical monuments. In 1990, St. Sophia Cathedral together with a complex of monastic structures of the XVIII century on its territory was put on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
