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On June 19, the first meeting of Dniprovsky Historical Seminar was held at D. Yavornytsky Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum – “Tkuma” Institute implemented this new project together with partners – museum, scientific and educational organizations of Dnipro and the region. The aim of the seminar is professional development, professional development of museum staff, historians, archivists through familiarization with new approaches in history methodology and in museum work. The relevance of Dniprovsky Historical Seminar work is primarily in the need to overcome non-scientific and pro-Soviet approaches in the creation of museum exhibitions and organization of excursions, in educational work.

Department heads and research staff of D. Yavornytsky Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, “Tkuma” Institute and even guests from other cities – museumologists from Novomoskovsk and history teacher from Melitopol were the participants of the seminar. The concept of a new project, its purpose, target audience, the form and procedure of work were discussed during the meeting. A lot of very interesting and constructive thoughts we could hear during the seminar. In particular, it was determined that the meetings of Dniprovsky Historical Seminar will be held alternately on the basis of various scientific and museum institutions (D. Yavornytsky Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University; “Tkuma” Institute; Institute of Dnipro History, Dnipro Academy of Continuous Education etc.), by pre-selected and prepared topics. Thus, Yurii Fanyhyn proposed to hold the next meeting in late August and devote it to the anniversary of Independence of Ukraine and opportunities for its actualization in the museum space.

In general, the participants agreed that the forms of the seminar work will include the following:

- discussion of the relevant problems of historical science and methods of displaying certain historical events and phenomena in museum exhibitions, in particular – on the regional history (“around the event”);

- dialogue with Ukrainian and foreign scientists invited to Dniprovsky Historical Seminar (“meeting with a guest”);

- presentations of museums from different countries of the world, mobile exhibitions (in particular – on historians, musicologists of our region working trips results);

- presentation and discussion of new scientific publications (books, articles), publications of museums of Ukraine and other countries of the world;

- development of joint projects between the scientific, museum and educational institutions of Dnipro and the region.

Serhii Zhuk – professor of Eastern European and Russian history at Ball State University in Indiana, USA, famous historian, a graduate of Dnipro National University, author of numerous scientific studies on Ukrainian and Soviet history, became a honorary guest of today's seminar. He presented his new books devoted to KGB activities in Soviet Ukraine and the persecution of young people, national groups and even historians in our city in the 70's and 80's, told very interesting stories about the origin of the hippies movement in Ukraine and shared his own thoughts on the museum business development in the USA and American museologist forms of work with visitors.

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