At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London—the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design—next year, ancient gates from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will be exhibited.
This was announced by Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, on Facebook.
"Culture is another front. But this is a front where silence fills the halls instead of explosions, and display cases take the place of trenches. It is here that the world decides whether it will remember who we are," the ambassador emphasized.
Zaluzhnyi noted:
"When you stand in London before the gates from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, you sharply feel that our culture was threatened—attempts were made to erase, dissolve, and appropriate it. Russia has tried for years to erase Ukraine from world history. But today, in one of the most important museums in the world, we prevail. Our memory speaks, our artifacts speak for us."
He added:
"Next year, we will present the public with a large joint project between Ukrainian museums and the Victoria & Albert Museum."
According to Zaluzhnyi, the museum will exhibit ancient gates from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, which were taken in the 1920s.
"For me, this is not just about an exhibition. It is about the right to our history and ensuring that the Ukrainian voice is heard even more strongly worldwide," he said.
The ambassador thanked the Victoria and Albert Museum team and the leadership of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, stressing that "without people who believe in the power of culture even during a great war, no front can be held."
