[Nhcoll-l] FW: Ukraine: ICOM Poland Appeal

[Opitz, Cindy E]

From our colleagues at ICOM:
Dear SPNHC Community,

Please see below an appeal from ICOM-Poland regarding the support of Ukranian museum professionals.

Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, in these dramatic days for Ukraine, the Polish Committee of the
International Council of Museums (ICOM Poland) is asking for your support in our efforts to help
Ukrainian museum professionals. In the third week of the Russian aggression on Ukraine, Poland received over 1,7 millions of refugees, mainly women, children and the elderly. Extensive help is
being offered by the Polish population and the local and state governments to assist them.
They often arrive with few, if any, belongings and are in need of shelter, food, medical
supplies and so on. In Ukraine people are not only fighting the aggressor, but also try to
protect and save the cultural heritage: museums, libraries, monuments, architectural gems.
Polish museums and Ministry of Culture and National Heritage are organizing help for
museums and cultural institutions in numerous Ukrainian cities.

What do we do?
ICOM Poland decided to focus on the needs of the museum personnel that found refuge in
our country. With the assistance of ICOM General Secretariat we established an Ukrainian
speaking office and started to locate persons scattered throughout Polish cities. We plan to
provide 3-months individual grants to the museum professionals that will apply. These
grants should help them to accommodate their first needs. At the same time, our office will act as a contact point between the grantees and Polish museums and cultural institutions, so that they may find a job and a welcoming professional milieu. The Polish state already simplified the necessary employment formalities to the minimum.
READ THE REST IN THE ATTACHMENT.


Cindy Opitz (she/her)
Director of Research Collections
Museum of Natural History and Old Capitol Museum
Instructor, Museum Studies Certificate Program
Secretary, SPNHC
The University of Iowa
11 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Office: 319.335.0481
cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu<mailto:cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu>
mnh.uiowa.edu,<https://mnh.uiowa.edu/> oldcap.uiowa.edu<https://oldcap.uiowa.edu/>
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