Staroflot Barracks ReStart: Mykolaiv residents restore the local history museum after shelling

In Mykolaiv, residents of the city are restoring the exposition of the local history museum after the rocket attacks.

The people of Mykolaiv are restoring the damaged exposition of the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local History with the support of the EU within the framework of the House of Europe program. Work continues in the exhibition premises on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building.

“Currently, works are ongoing in the exhibition halls of nature and halls dedicated to the formation of the city of Mykolaiv and the city’s shipbuilding industry. They are also restoring the ethnographic hall dedicated to the Cossacks and folk crafts of the steppe South,” says Yevhen Homonyuk, representative of the MY ART Platform and cultural development expert of the Mykolaiv Restoration and Development Office.

Since the full-scale invasion, the museum has suffered five times as a result of Russian shelling. 15 exhibition halls were damaged. As a result, the exposition of 9,633 museum objects was dismantled. Among them are unique collections of archeology, weapons, products made of precious metals, tools, numismatics, natural materials, etc.

Previously, USM reported that Nibulon moved part of the fleet from Mykolaiv to the Danube.

Most of the company’s fleet still remains in Mykolaiv port. It is extremely dangerous to take vessels out of the port due to the constant risk of shelling from the Russian side. So, last month, the invaders attacked a civilian vessel  in the Mykolaiv region with artillery.