The museum launches a 6-month educational programme on the restoration of Ukrainian silent cinema — in partnership with the Dovzhenko Centre (Kyiv) to preserve VUFKU films.
In January 2026 the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine began a six-month educational programme 'School of Film Archiving — Restoration of Ukrainian Silent Cinema'. The programme is conducted in partnership with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre (Kyiv) — the main state film archive of Ukraine. Participants are 12 young archivists, restorers, film scholars from the Kyiv Academy of Arts, the Kyiv National Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, Lviv University.
The programme focuses on the most vulnerable objects — original 35mm films of the VUFKU era (All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration, 1922-1930), some of which remain in the museum's holdings in a partially destroyed state. Disciplines: chemical diagnosis of nitrate-base film; mechanical cleaning of frames from mould; splicing of damaged perforations; digital 4K-scanning restoration with noise removal; reconstruction of lost frames from historical editing sheets. A separate block — restoration of Dovzhenko's films Zvenyhora (1928), Arsenal (1929), Earth (1930), fragments of which are preserved in the holdings. Graduation works of participants — restored VUFKU film fragments — will enter the public screening.
