The Dmytro Yavornytskyi Dnipro National History Museum and the Oleksiy Shovkunenko Kherson Regional Art Museum have been included in an international ranking <a href="https://www.museum-week.org/ranking2026-glam?fbclid=IwY2xjawTVrSBwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMUFXWmNmd202cXhxM2dLcGxzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEelJ-UeIycoMnmynecjPxSQZ4Za6g-_06Dn4-Fijl3T4DuWyqnrFfTjQDQB7A_aem__enK3R7HAcFUnwkWlBiqTw” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>MuseumWeek2026. The Dnipro Museum ranked fourth, while the Kherson Museum ranked 24th.
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The ranking assessed the institutions’ ability to engage audiences, disseminate cultural content, and stimulate discussion of the arts. In terms of engagement, the Dnipro Historical Museum received a score of 72.8, while the Kherson Art Museum received a score of 62.7.
More than 700 cultural institutions registered to participate in MuseumWeek 2026. The organizers included 83 of them in the final ranking, with rankings determined by the level of audience engagement with their posts during the festival.
MuseumWeek 2026 took place from June 1 to 7 and had the theme “Intelligences, Museums, Futures.” The program focused on how AI affects the work of museums, their teams, audiences, and social role, as well as the opportunities and risks of new technologies.
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MuseumWeek is an international festival for cultural institutions and their audiences. It was launched in France in 2014 with the participation of twelve Parisian museums, including the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Palace of Versailles. Since 2016, the initiative has been carried out with the support of UNESCO.
- The Kherson Regional Art Museum has been included in the MuseumWeek list for the second year in a row: in 2025, it ranked 83rd out of 152 institutions.
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