Ukraine
Fund Consultant
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UKRAINE 
2001
Consultants
Guillermo Barrios • Paul Elicker • Amy Módly • Jillian
Poole
Activities Summary
Odessa and Lviv
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Team visit with Odessa museum officials
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At the invitation of the American Embassy in Ukraine, The Fund conducted
back-to-back management seminars in the two Ukrainian cities of Odessa
and Lviv, September 22 to October 5. The Fund team drew from the international
expertise of Guillermo Barrios, Associate Professor and Chairman, Graduate
Program of Museum Studies, Central University of Venezuela and Amy Módly,
Country Coordinator for The Fund in Hungary who joined Paul Elicker and
Jillian Poole to conduct both seminars. The seminars we re modeled after
the management seminars The Fund has offered to the Russian regional museums,
taking into account the particular interests of the Ukrainian participants.
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Participants celebrate completion of seminar in Lviv
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The make-up of the participants was varied with a large part of the Odessa
audience consisting of second-tier management staff from the West-East
Museum, whereas in Lviv, directors of a wide representation of museums
in that region participated.
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Lviv seminar participants
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Nine key points emerged from the seminars to be the most salient for
participants
Museum management should make a conscious effort to steer away from
the old Soviet style command economy toward a management-staff collaborative
form of management.
The unifying principles of a well-constructed mission statement should
be stressed.
The visitor is the most important person in the museum.
A simplified and inexpensive program of market research focused on
identifying present or desired visitors can be rewarding.
Increased self-control of museum planning and museum finances should
be a trend of the future.
Museums must make a conscious attempt to be increasingly user friendly.
Exhibits should be designed and presented so that they tell a story.
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l-r) Guillermo Barrios, Paul Elicker, Amy Módly at a museum storage
facility outside of Lviv
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Each city should mount more joint museum efforts, particularly in their
dealings with other nonmuseum publics.
Museum management should consciously reach out to potential community
supporters.
Kiev
During the visit to Ukraine, Jillian Poole traveled to Kiev and met with
various cultural leaders to determine whether The Fund could be of assistance
to them. Among the museums and libraries visited were the National Fine
Arts Museum of Ukraine, the State Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Arts,
the State Museum of Books and Printing in Ukraine, and the Museum of the
History of Kiev. She also visited The Ivan Honchar Museum, which requested
assistance with identifying international contacts interested in crafts
and the Arts Berezillia Theater Festival, which is seeking developmental
help. The Fund, in cooperation with the Embassy, will respond to both
these requests.
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