Vortrag und Gespräch: Kriegspropaganda in russischen Museen

In the organizer's words:

Whether art museums or historical collections - a country's cultural institutions can be instrumentalized in the sense of a national historiography and thus serve war propaganda. In Russia, too, ideological centralization has gained momentum under Vladimir Putin's presidency and especially since the war of aggression against Ukraine.

In her lecture, Russian museum scholar Anastasia Serikova analyzes both exhibitions of military artefacts and art exhibitions on the war against Ukraine in Russian museums. She examines how and by what means images of soldiers, the army, the nation, the 'enemy' and the victims of the war are used for patriotic propaganda.

Serikova obtained a Master's degree in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Protection at the St. Petersburg University of Culture in 2021. Since 2023, she has been working as a DAAD scholarship holder at Bielefeld University on her dissertation on the cultural heritage of ongoing wars in Russian museums.

An event organized by Osteuropaforum Münster e. V. and the LWL Museum of Art and Culture