On the occasion of the 174th anniversary of Ivan Pavlovskyi's birth, the Poltava Battlefield State Historical and Cultural Preserve hosted a roundtable discussion ‘Decolonisation in the Museum: How to Live with Our Past, How to Build Our Future’ with the online participation of Polish researcher, Associate Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Dr Elżbieta Kwieczynska. Researchers from Poltava municipal museums, the Dykanka Museum of Local Lore named after Dmytro Harmash, and the Hadiach Museum of History and Local Lore listened to Dr Elżbieta's online lecture: ‘Colonial discourse in the museum: how to identify and overcome it (and not to mirror it)?’. The lecturer noted that decolonisation has its own peculiarities for different countries. For Ukraine, this problem has been exacerbated by the current war. Unfortunately, there are no simple or unambiguous answers to the question of how best to deal with the colonial past. Decolonisation is a process aimed at overcoming the negative consequences and influences of totalitarian regimes; it is not only getting rid of imperial and Soviet symbols, but it is, above all, a process of rethinking. The researcher shared the experience of European countries she knows and answered questions from museum workers.
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