The Sixtiers Museum opened recently, housing more than 20,000 exhibits, including documents, photographs, drawings, sculptures, writings, and paintings by intellectuals of the 1960s to early 1970s era. Such unique documents as archival photos and examples of creative productions by Alla Horska, Ivan Svitlychny, Yevhen Sverstiuk, Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky, and Viacheslav Chornovil are displayed in the museum’s showcases and on its stands. One can feel the atmosphere of the time in the museum, seeing period things, a transistor, a reel-to-reel recorder and an old typewriter that worked a lot in its lifetime. Still, the exhibition is focused on development of free-thinking and revival of national traditions in the Sixtiers’ era. The museum, a branch of the Kyiv City History Museum, is designed to preserve the memory of the heroes of the Thaw and to tell visitors about the struggle for the Ukrainian culture revival and the government repressions against the Sixtiers.
