The year began with a professional trip by Tetiana Shaparenko, art historian and senior researcher at the Dnipro National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytsky.
From January 6 to 26, 2025, she traveled to Estonia as part of the grant program “CULTURE MOVES EUROPE – Individual Mobility for Artists and Cultural Professionals”. This trip was made possible through the program funded by the European Union, designed to support professional and creative exchange between Ukrainians and their colleagues in EU countries and the United Kingdom.
Purpose of the trip: research the use of modern digital technologies in Estonian museum exhibitions, gain new experience in working with multimedia tools, and develop educational work with museum visitors. The international partner in this project was the Kumu Art Museum (#kumu).
“Museum exhibitions belong to the visual arts, so it was extremely important for me to see the museums firsthand to understand why certain modern exhibition techniques were used. It was important to study in detail how multimedia tools work in museums, communicate with specialists, and thereby improve my competencies. This trip gave me practical experience and many new ideas. Any grant program concludes with a report. By the end of February, I had already submitted my report and am trying to apply the findings from this trip in my work,” says Tetiana.
As a result of this professional journey, Tetiana:
visited 10 museums in four cities in Estonia: Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, and Kuressaare;
studied the use of various multimedia tools in museum exhibitions, including observing the use of artificial intelligence in a museum;
gathered numerous ideas for creating future museum exhibitions using IT technologies;
enhanced her competencies through informal learning and collaboration with Estonian museum professionals.
This experience will be invaluable for updating museum spaces—something every Ukrainian museum professional dreams of—and for exploring new practices in visitor engagement.
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