The two-year long project “MUCIT: Museums as Sites of Citizenship” gather forces across Norway, Poland and Ukraine to support Ukrainian museums and memorial sites by strengthening their civic education programs and building their capacity to safeguard, strengthen and showcase democracy as part of intangible cultural heritage during the war and in the postwar recovery.
“MUCIT: Museums as Sites of Citizenship,” is a two-year project that unites the European Wergeland Centre, National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity – Maidan Museum in Ukraine, POLIN – Museum of Polish Jews, and Utøya in Norway.
The project builds on the need to strengthen the capacities of museums to promote a culture of democracy, develop democratic competences and encourage civic participation among younger generations in Ukraine and Europe as a whole.
Through the project, the European Wergeland Centre facilitate networking and experience sharing between museum educators in Poland, Ukraine and Norway on how to help society deal with traumatic experience causing alienation, disentanglement, lack of trust and social divides, and how to transform traumatic experience into constructive civic action and participation in local communities.
“MUCIT: Museums as Sites of Citizenship” pays special attention to the cooperation between museums and schools when teaching sensitive and controversial issues – through synergies between cultural and educational sectors. The project encourages inter-sectoral co-creation, cooperation and innovation.
Durin the course of the two year project, museum educators and experts from 10 institutions in Ukraine, Norway, Poland and other European countries will come together, as well as 200 local actors, policy makers and educators through workshops, study visits and webinars, development of digital resources, including a summer school for teachers in Ukraine.
It is expected that cooperation between the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Coalition of Memory, Utøya, the European Wergeland Centre in Norway and POLIN Museum in Poland will result in strong European partnerships, dynamic professional development for museum experts in Ukraine, Poland and Norway, and strong support to Ukrainian museums in their development of innovative educational programs and cutting-edge resources to address younger audiences.
Partners: Utøya, POLIN, Maidan Museum
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