About the Journal

The National museum of the history of Ukraine has old and rich tradition of publication of the collections of studies, which started with the first volume of the ‘Works of Kyiv State historical museum’ in 1958. Since 1993, materials of the annual scientific and practical conferences of the Museum of historical treasures of Ukraine (Branch of the National museum of history of Ukraine) ‘Museum readings’ have been published. Since 1994, materials of the annual scientific and practical conferences of the National museum of history of Ukraine, in particular thematic collections of studies, have been published. Among them there are following collections: ‘The ways of establishing of the National museum of history of Ukraine’: from the origins to today’ (1994), ‘To centenary of the National museum of history of Ukraine. From the history of the museum and its rarities’ (1998), ‘National museum of history of Ukraine – the treasury of historical memory of Ukrainian people’ (1999), ‘Vikentiy Vyacheslavovych Khvoyka and his contribution to Ukrainian archaeology (to the 150 years from his birthday)’ (2000), ‘National museum of history of Ukraine: progression to the third millennium’ (2004), ‘The museum and its collections (to the 110 years of its foundation)’ (2009), ‘National museum of history of Ukraine is 110’ (in two parts, 2009), thematic collections of studies (2010, 2011). The articles in these collections are dedicated to the wide circle of topics: the history of formation of the Museum funds and establishment of the Museum, the Museum workers’ personalities, practical and theoretical problems of Ukrainian history. Due to objective factors, thematic collections of studies and materials of conclusive annual conferences were not published in 2012-2014. The longstanding tradition of publishing the results of yearly scientific work of the National museum of history of Ukraine was continued in publication of the first and the second volumes of the Scientific Bulletin of the National museum of the history of Ukraine (2016, 2017) which contained the materials of the conclusive scientific-practical conferences of the National museum of the history of Ukraine in 2015 and 2016 years. The peculiarity of the mentioned issues is a renewed format which corresponds to the requirements of scientific editions. Wide spectrum of analyzed problems is the novelty of the Bulletin. Except purely museum topics, the authors consider actual problems of the history of Ukraine, publish the archaeological and archival sources, study the history of art. The authors of the volume of 2017 year are museum workers, high school teachers, academicians, students, and postgraduates. The volume contains the articles and source publications of the scholars from Kyiv, Lutsk, Bar, Pereyaslav, Opishne, Slovyansk. The materials of the Bulletin are structured into the rubrics: ‘Museum collections as historical source. Ancient history and archaeology’, ‘Studies of museum collections of the Late Medieval and Early Modern history’, ‘Archaeology of Ukraine’, ‘Restoration and conservation of museum collections’, ‘Studies of museum collections of the Modern and Contemporary times’, ‘History of Ukraine’, ‘Historiography’, ‘Historical biography studies’, ‘Source studies: publication of sources’, ‘History of art, iconography, architecture’, ‘Scientific-fund work; achievements and perspectives’, ‘Museum pedagogy and education in museum. Personnel policy’, ‘Museum work in Ukraine’, ‘New methods of the work with museum collections’, ‘Numismatic museum collections’, ‘Sigillographic museum collections’. Hopefully, the publication of the collection of the materials of the Annual scientific-practical conference of the National museum of the history of Ukraine (NMHU) will promote fruitful collaboration between the scholars from NMHU and their colleagues from Ukrainian and foreign museums as well as between scholars and teachers in their common business – exploration of Ukrainian history and museology. We also hope that the publications of the Bulletin will be of use to the students of Ukrainian history and auxiliary sciences of history.