The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy wants the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
“Chornobyl. A place that was once promising and breakthrough, in a few minutes, turned the world upside down. Now Chernobyl still causes goosebumps 35 years after. Hundreds of thousands of people annually come to Ukraine to look at the ghost town and the exclusion zone, which, although it looks like a set of a post-apocalyptic film, is not a decoration… Together with MCIP, we are moving towards adding the Zone to the UNESCO World Heritage List to preserve it. And allow future generations to see everything with their own eyes,” Tkachenko wrote in his Telegram channel on April 26.
The minister said that Chornobyl is not about entertainment but memory and responsible tourism.
“To immerse in the events of that time deeper, some events are planned for the anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster. Thus, with the support of MCIP, the exhibition ‘Chornobyl. Journey’ will open at the National Complex Expocentre of Ukraine. It will contain seven blocks, including archival photographs and video materials, works of world artists, a VR trip to Chornobyl. And illustrative examples of how the Exclusion Zone lives now,” the minister said.
Also, many Ukrainian performers, at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, created audio tracks dedicated to the anniversary of the tragedy.
