Exhibition: Ancient Treasures of Ukraine

The exhibition "Ancient Treasures of Ukraine" will be shown at the National Museum in Warsaw from the 15th of April until the 29th of June 2008. It is the first presentation outside of Ukraine of these high-profile works which come from a private collection carefully compiled by industrialists Sergiej Platonow and Sergiej Tarut. In the first decade of Ukraine's turbulent transition from communism to democracy, they began collecting these works in an attempt to save them from harm and from being sold off to foreign investors, and have thus amassed one of the richest accumulations of archaeological documentations of the country's past. The exhibition will present 400 works ranging from about 6000 BC through the Middle Ages, documenting the most important periods in the incredibly rich history of Ukraine, including relics from the cultures that used to inhabit ancient Ukraine, such as the Greeks, Romans, and Russians.