Olena Zelenska on the achievements of 2024: 18 new audio guides and hundreds of books for Ukrainians in the world
Kyiv • UNN
In 2024, we launched 18 new Ukrainian-language audio guides to cultural sites around the world. We also donated hundreds of Ukrainian books to libraries in 8 countries as part of the Ukrainian Bookshelves project.
In 2024, we managed to launch 18 Ukrainian-language audio guides to cultural monuments around the world and transferred hundreds of publications to Ukrainian bookshelves.
This was reported by the First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, UNN reports.
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In particular, 18 Ukrainian-language audio guides were launched this year:
The Netherlands - Van Gogh Museum;
Japan - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum;
Latvia - Museum of the Occupation of Latvia;
Sweden - the Nobel Prize Museum;
Austria - Vienna's Hofburg Palace;
Finland - Axeli Gallen-Kallela Museum in Espoo;
Serbia - Kalemegdan Fortress Museum;
UAE - Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi;
Cyprus - Anastasios Leventis Art Gallery;
Peru - A place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion in the city of Lima;
Germany - Barberini Museum;
Belgium - Royal Museums of Fine Arts;
Mexico - tourist sightseeing buses in Mexico City Capital Bus;
Argentina - sightseeing bus routes in Buenos Aires;
Vatican - Vatican museums;
Lithuania - Museum of Church Heritage in Vilnius;
Italy - Ukrainian-language mobile application MyPompeii in the Pompeii Archaeological Park. In the last few days of this year, the Ukrainian audio guide was also made available in Croatia, at the Krapina Neanderthal Museum.
The path that people have traveled over hundreds of thousands of years of history is impressive and encouraging. Humanity did not come out of the caves to live with a cave consciousness. Therefore, it must restrain aggression and preserve humanistic civilization
In total, 95 audio guides have been launched in 51 countries.
In addition, within the framework of another project, Ukrainian Bookshelves, hundreds of Ukrainian books have been donated to the Winnipeg Public Library and the Central Library of Mississauga (Canada), the American University Library (Cyprus), the Astana IT University Library (Kazakhstan), the Muara Language and Literature Bureau (Brunei), the La Sabana University Library (Peru), the Juliana Reformed Secondary School Library (Hungary), and the National Library of Azerbaijan in the last two months alone.
The project currently covers 54 countries and UNESCO headquarters. In total, there are about 220 shelves with more than 55 thousand books available.
