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 attempts to erase Ukraine’s national identity and cultural heritage make it imperative to shed light on Ukraine’s history, based on scientific research and through collaboration between scholars and institutions in both Sweden and Ukraine. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to do just that and to highlight periods when Ukraine’s and Sweden’s paths have crossed through, for example, trade, settlement, and political and diplomatic relations. We are delighted to contribute to this collaborative research and exhibition, says Maria Söderberg, who continues to serve as chair 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 exhibition’s main sponsor.

More about the exhibition and the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.

More about the exhibition at the Army Museum.

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation has also funded a research project at the National Archives of Sweden on Charles XII’s field chancellery and Ukraine’s first constitution, also known as the Filip Orlyk Constitution. It was signed in Bender and is a central feature of the exhibition—a concrete example of a historical Swedish-Ukrainian intersection. More about this project.

Graphic: Army Museum