National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide

National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide
Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду
Memorial
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Established2008
Location3 Lavrska St., Kyiv, Ukraine
TypeHall of Memory
Visitors190,000 (2018)[1]
Public transit accessArsenalna (Kyiv Metro)
Websitehttp://www.holodomormuseum.org.ua/eng

The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Ukrainian: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду, romanizedNatsionalnyi muzei Holodomoru-henotsydu),[2] formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008. It gained the status of a national museum in 2010. The museum is located on the Pechersk Hills on the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kyiv, adjacent to the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

  1. ^ "National National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide was awarded "Recognition of the Year – 2012"". memorialholodomor.org.ua. 28 February 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  2. ^ Нова назва Музею відтепер – Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду [The new name of the Museum from now – National Holodomor-Genocide Museum]. Ministry of Culture of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 3 August 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2016.