Ministry of Culture of Ukraine National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” National Academy of Managers of Culture and Arts Public Organization “Association of Restorers of Ukraine”
DEAR COLLEAGUES!
We invite you to participate in the work of the XI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Museums and Restoration in the Context of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Current Challenges of Modernity”, which will be held on September 17–18, 2026 at the National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” (01015, Kyiv, Ivan Mazepa St., 21), dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Reserve.
Thematic areas of the conference:
- Restoration and preservation of cultural heritage: history and present
- Museum management and protection of historical and cultural monuments
- Study, examination and attribution of works of art
- Museum/archival/library/gallery/private collections
- Public administration and public policy in the field of cultural heritage protection
- Training of specialists in museum studies, expertise and restoration
- Research in related fields of activity
We invite specialists from research institutions, museum institutions, restoration centers, higher education institutions, postgraduate and doctoral students, students of relevant specialties to participate. We accept student papers only in co-authorship with a scientific supervisor! Participation form: mixed (offline and ZOOM). The conference materials will be published in the corresponding collection before the start of its work (subject to the authors’ prior order of a sufficient number of printed copies). Please send materials, formatted in accordance with the requirements below, to the email address: restavrator.centr@gmail.com by July 27, 2026.
Requirements for submitting materials to the collection: Authors (conference participants) provide texts of their own, previously unpublished research in accordance with the conference topic in Ukrainian or English. At the beginning, it is mandatory to provide abstracts to the article in the amount of 3-4 sentences with its title and keywords in Ukrainian and English. The main requirement for texts is the scientific novelty of the material, originality of ideas, relevance of the topic. Authors send: 1. Application in a separate file (see below). 2. Text of the article in a separate file up to 15 thousand characters including spaces, typed in the text editor Microsoft Word for Windows, Times New Roman font, font size – 14, line spacing – 1.5. File format – doc. a. Format paragraph indents without using a tabulator. b. Do not use dashes instead of hyphens in the text and vice versa. c. Use round quotes “ ” when citing d. Names of centuries should be indicated in the corresponding Roman numerals. 3. If additional fonts are used in the text, provide them in separate files. 4. Illustrative material (if available, no more than 8 units) in separate numbered files in tiff or jpeg formats (300 dpi). Accordingly, in the text of the article, it is mandatory to place the reference numbers for illustrations in parentheses (Fig. 1, etc.). Provide a separate file with a correspondingly numbered list of captions for illustrations (Fig. 1…). Tables with headings can be placed in the text or also provided in separate files. 5. List of sources and literature used (required), compiled in the order of appearance of references in the text, provided after the text, formatted according to the requirements of DSTU 2015. Please do not use automatic numbering. References to sources and literature should be given in the text in square brackets with their continuous numbering (e.g.:[3, с. 42] for bibliography or[3, арк. 42] (for archival files), where 3 is the serial number in the specified list. The absence of references to sources and literature in the text is possible if the author provides the work in the “Message” section. Attention! Samples of the design of sources and literature in the list: Electronic publication: Osadcha O. Fresco technique for studying the course “Work in Material” for students. URL: http:// artisthe-len.com/rozrobky/tehnika-fresky-dovyvchennya-kursu-robota-v-materiali-dlya-studentiv-spetsialnosti-023 (Note that we refer to a specific publication posted on a specific electronic resource) Literature: Nikitenko M. M. The Holy Mountains of Kyiv: the construction of the sacred space of early Christian Kyiv (late 10th – early 12th centuries). Kyiv, 2013. 484 p., ill. Shemaev S. A. Peculiarities of interaction between libraries, museums, and archives in foreign countries. Young Scientist. 2015. No. 4 (84). Part VIII. P. 738–741. Archival sources: National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, archive of the Chief Architect’s Service. Sitkareva O., Kolesnikov O., et al. Preliminary report on the preparation of the restoration project of the Church of the Savior on Berestov under the Getty Foundation Grants Program. Historical reference. Document: F.G. 84/16. Kyiv, 2002. Central State Archive of Higher Authorities and Administration of Ukraine (CSAAO of Ukraine), f. 1, op. 33, spr 40, 28 sheets. 6. After the list of sources and literature and the list of illustrations, provide a list of abbreviations (if any). We strongly ask you to adhere to the submission deadlines and conditions for the preparation of materials! The Organizing Committee reserves the right to selectively publish materials in accordance with the authors’ compliance with all the above conditions, as well as for scientific editing, etc. The received materials are not reviewed. The authors are responsible for the reliability of the facts provided, the completeness and systematic coverage of the issues under investigation, the writing of their own names and geographical names, references to sources and literature. Travel and accommodation are at the expense of the sending party.
Conference Organizing Committee: Svitlana Gaga-Sheremetyeva (+38 067 744 98 77; +38 044 406 63 51), Olena Chernyakhivska, Ph.D. (+38 067 299 16 26)