Rapid Site Report: Museum of History and Archeology of the Mariupol State University, Ukraine

OVERVIEW: The Museum of History and Archeology of the Mariupol State University (hereafter, the University Museum), located on the second floor of the University’s main building, was damaged between 21 June 2021 and 29 March 2022. Analysis conducted by the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), in collaboration with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (PennCHC), the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (CHML), and the Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab (HeMo), confirmed this damage. This review was undertaken after local news sources in Mariupol reported that the University Museum had been destroyed.

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CITE THIS REPORT: Hanson, K., Bender, T. J. P., Lawrence-Weilmann, J., Rozhko, V., Oleksii, A., Makar, R., Zadorozhna, M., Fitzgerald, K., Welsh, W., Maher, A., Bassett, H., Gunter-Bassett, M., Muller, C. E., Kane, K. E., Daniels, B. I., and Wegener, C. (2024). “Rapid Site Report: Museum of History and Archeology of the Mariupol State University, Ukraine,” Virginia Museum of Natural History, Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab; Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Penn Cultural Heritage Center; and Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative. DOI: 10.25573/data.26072581.