25 April 2006 13:07

The Yesterday Area

The Foundation sees its mission as drawing public attention to major problems in the sphere of history and culture, preparing recommendations for their settling on the basis of open dialog, and putting them into practice.

A nation that doesn’t learn lessons from the past has no future. This saying had repeatedly proved itself in various historical periods. Thus, we need to realize that our past, present, and future are inseparable links of the single chain of existence.

Millions of links connect today’s Ukraine with the roots of our people, which has now got a unique chance to find its destination in this world.

Ukraine’s history and culture present an inexhaustible source of creative energy and vitality, which will help us get over all obstacles on the way to the making of the young state. The priority now is to reveal this potential, turning it into a resource for the country’s development and directing it for the benefit of the Ukrainian society.

The Foundation’s priority in the Yesterday area is support for the projects aimed at:

protection and preservation of Ukraine’s historical and cultural heritage
historical, archeological, culture-related, and ethnographic research
introducing new forms of work with the historical and cultural values
popularizing historical and cultural monuments
introducing international standards of cultural work into Ukrainian practice
integration of the Ukrainian culture into European cultural space

The Foundation's activities in this fields are grouped into two major programs:

Unique Ukraine, aimed at protecting, studying, and popularizing concrete monuments of Ukraine’s material and spiritual culture (museum collections, architectural, archeological, and historical sites, folk traditions and crafts, etc.)

The Lessons of History, envisaging work with complex phenomena or periods in history and culture in order to interpret and appraise them from contemporary viewpoint.