The hiding place where Shukhevych was hiding and the stairs on which he was killed will become the basis of the future museum
Lviv continues to discuss the design of a project to restore the destroyed museum of UPA General Roman Shukhevych in Bilohirsk. The next meeting was held yesterday, 3 October, at the city hall. It was attended by Roman Shukhevych’s daughter Maria Tryliovska (Shukhevych), Lviv’s chief architect Anton Kolomeitsev, the manager of the executive committee Yevhen Boyko, the deputy mayor for humanitarian affairs Iryna Kulynych, and representatives of the museum.
The winner of the architectural competition, Andriy Lesiuk, presented the preliminary design to the working group members.
According to the preliminary version of the project, the key features of the future museum space should be the hiding place where Roman Shukhevych was hiding on the second floor, as well as the wooden staircase, Andriy Lesiuk said.
“We have conducted research and, unfortunately, the conclusion is disappointing – the stairs are unusable after the Russian shelling. Therefore, they need to be restored and preserved. We plan to exhibit them in the city where they were historically located. But we are planning to add another staircase to get to the second floor. We are talking about duplicate stairs that will be hidden behind a partition and will not be visually visible,” explains the architect.
According to him, it is also very important that the entire museum space will be barrier-free from the road. “It was difficult to decide how a person with disabilities could get to the second floor. Therefore, we propose to make a small lift that can lift a person in a wheelchair up.”
As for the hideout, Andriy Lesyuk suggested that after its restoration, it should be filled with a modern acoustic system that will transmit the breathing and heartbeat of the person hiding there to convey their emotional state. The sound of the footsteps of soldiers searching for those hiding will also be heard.
The chief architect of Lviv, Anton Kolomeytsev, made a proposal for the museum’s shelter. In particular, he proposes to create a media space where films about Roman Shukhevych can be broadcast.
As a reminder, in June this year, Lviv presented a sketch of a project to restore the Museum of the UPA General-Corporal Roman Shukhevych in Bilohirsh, which was destroyed by Russian shelling. The team of Andriy Lesiuk, the author of the Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes in Lviv, won the All-Ukrainian architectural competition.