14th Scientific and Practical Conference “Museum Pedagogy — Problems, Present, Prospects”
Dear Colleagues!
October 1–2, 2026, the National Reserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” will host the XIV Scientific and Practical Conference “Museum Pedagogy — Problems, Present, Prospects,” addressing the development of museum pedagogy, issues of actualization and interpretation of historical and cultural heritage, and the use of its potential in the education and upbringing of children.
Conference partners: National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical and Adult Education of the NAES, UNESCO Chair “Continuing Professional Education of the 21st Century,” Scientific and Educational Laboratory of Museum Pedagogy of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
The main purpose of the scientific and practical conference is the need to summarize accumulated experience and identify new methods and forms of work in museum pedagogy, as well as to consider the process of transforming the core functions of pedagogy (scientific-cognitive and educational-upbringing) to the conditions of a specific museum institution.
Form of participation — in-person and remote. Please send applications and materials by September 7, 2026 to the email address: o.topylko@kplavra.kyiv.ua or o-top@ukr.net
Thematic areas:
- The latest methods of popularizing historical and cultural heritage among schoolchildren and youth.
- The experience of museums under conditions of war.
- Recreation for service members and their family members in the museum space.
- The modern context of the functioning of museum-pedagogical projects and programs.
- The experience of museum institutions, the development and application of interactive methods of museum pedagogy.
- Museum and school — working together.
- Cooperation between museums and educational institutions, the acquisition of research skills by school-age youth.
- Accessibility of the museum space for people with limited mobility. Inclusiveness in the museum-educational sphere.
- Opportunities and directions for the development of the museum sector.
- The use of information and multimedia technologies in the educational process, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
- Design and creation of virtual museums, exhibitions and catalogs, remote museum-educational services, the formation of museum-pedagogical communities, clubs and partner groups on social media.
- The specifics of conceptual and artistic design of museum expositions and exhibitions for a child and youth audience.
- Experience in obtaining grants for the implementation of projects in the museum-educational sphere. Information management, non-profit marketing, the use of PR technologies in scientific and educational museum projects.
Format:
The two-day conference will be held in the format of a plenary session, discussions, presentations, and master classes.
Target audience: staff of leading museums of Ukraine, researchers, heads and teaching staff of higher, general secondary, and specialized secondary institutions, educational psychologists, heads and teachers of preschool and out-of-school education institutions, representatives of civic organizations.
An invitation to the conference will be sent to participants separately.
To cover the costs associated with the publication of the conference materials, an organizational fee of 250 UAH is provided.
Materials that have not been previously published must be submitted in the Ukrainian language.
The main criteria are relevance to the conference theme, scholarly novelty, originality of thought, and topicality.
The collection of conference materials is planned to be published before the start of the conference.
Articles submitted after the above-mentioned deadline will not be considered.
Authors must submit:
1. An application, as a separate file, with information about themselves: surname, first name, academic degree, academic title (if any), place of work and position, contact details for correspondence, and the title of the article.
2. The article text as a separate file, up to 10,000 characters including spaces, typed in Microsoft Word for Windows, font Times New Roman, font size 14, line spacing 1.5. File format — doc, rtf.
Paragraph indents should be formatted without using the tab key. If additional fonts are used, provide them as separate files.
3. Illustrative material (if available). Tables with headings should be placed within the text or provided as separate files.
Numbered illustrations (no more than four items) should be provided as separate files in tiff or jpeg format (300 dpi).
A reference to each illustration must be placed in the text. Below the list of sources and literature used (see item 4), provide a numbered (without using automatic numbering) list of captions for the illustrations.
4. A list of sources and literature used (mandatory), compiled in the order in which references appear in the text, provided at the end of the article.
Do not use automatic numbering.
References to sources and literature should be given in the text in square brackets with continuous numbering (e.g.: [4, 25], where 4 is the sequential number in the list, 25 is the page number. If 25 is an archival sheet, then write: sheet 25).
Sample reference to an electronic publication:
Osadcha O. Fresco technique for studying the “Working in Material” course for students [Electronic resource]. — Access mode.
One should refer to a specific publication posted on a particular electronic resource, not to the resource as a whole.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information in the materials submitted for publication.
The Organizing Committee reserves the right to selectively publish materials in accordance with authors’ compliance with the stated criteria and formatting requirements, as well as the right to literary, technical editing and correction of texts. Submitted works are not returned and are not peer-reviewed.
The conference materials will be published in the collection: “Museum Pedagogy — Problems, Present, Prospects.” Conditions of participation in the conference: travel, meals, and hotel accommodation — at the expense of the sending party.
Venue: Kyiv, 21 Ivana Mazepy St., Building No. 25 (Lecture Hall).
Phone for inquiries: (044) 406-63-66 (organizing committee);
(044) 406-63-59 (department of museum-educational programs and recreation);
Email: o.topylko@kplavra.kyiv.ua; o-top@ukr.net
Address: 21 Ivana Mazepy St., Building 8, Kyiv, 01015
Conference Organizing Committee