In addition to telling this common history, the exhibition has created a platform for new collaboration and new networks between countries and institutions that will deepen and disseminate knowledge about Ukraine and its role in European history into the present.

- Russia's attempt to erase Ukraine's national identity and cultural heritage makes it urgent, on a scientific basis and through cooperation between researchers and institutions in both Sweden and Ukraine, to make Ukraine's history visible. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to do so and to highlight periods when Ukraine's and Sweden's paths crossed through, for example, trade, settlement, political and diplomatic relations. We are pleased to be involved in this collaborative research and exhibition," said Maria Söderberg, President of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.

The exhibition Crossroads: Sweden-Ukraine through a 1000 years / Korsvägar: Sverige-Ukraina genom 1000 år is a collaboration between the National Archives, the Army Museum / National Defense History Museums and the National War Museum of Ukraine.

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation is the main financier of the exhibition.

More about the exhibition and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.

More about the exhibition at the Army Museum.

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation has also funded scientific work at the National Archives on Karl XII's field chancellery and Ukraine's first constitution, also known as Filip Orlyk's constitution. It was signed in Bender and is a central element of the exhibition - a concrete example of a historical Swedish-Ukrainian crossroads. More about this project.

Graphic: Army Museum