Repression, Resistance and Nationhood

Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Alberta Branch invites you, your family, friends, and colleagues to attend our new exhibit, “Repression, Resistance and Nationhood: Ukrainian Nation-Building – A Historical Representation”. Most of the exhibit’s displays will continue to be viewable in the museum gallery from May 25th until late December 2026 and in the foyer of St. John’s Cultural Centre until mid-November 2026.

The exhibit showcases milestones in Ukrainian history including the founding of Kyiv, Kyivan Rus, the Halych-Volyn Principality and Kingdom, the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate, the 1917-21 Ukrainian War of Independence, Independent Ukraine and its people’s courageous fight against the Kremlin’s current military invasion of Ukraine.

The entire opening weekend also includes the travelling exhibit “’…And They Will Rise in Glory and Power’: Destroyed Temples of Ukraine” courtesy of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.

While many artifacts are on loan from various museum collections, over 100 artifacts were generously lent by Basilian Fathers Museum in Mundare. In addition to those artifacts from Ukrainian Museum of Canada (Alberta Branch), others are borrowed from the Ukrainian Women’s Organization of Canada, Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore (Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives), UCWLC Edmonton Eparchy Museum, Ukrainian National Federation, and Vadym Obertas.