An exhibition titled “Resilient Heritage: From Timbuktu to Odesa” has opened at the world’s largest architecture museum in Paris, exploring the destruction, protection, and restoration of cultural heritage during wartime.
First Lady Olena Zelenska reported this on Telegram after visiting the exhibition, according to Ukrinform.
“An exhibition titled ‘A Heritage That Resists: From Timbuktu to Odesa’ has opened at the world’s largest architecture museum in Paris. It offers an unvarnished look at how architectural treasures suffer as a result of war,” she said.
One of the main exhibits at the world’s largest architecture museum, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, is the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, which was severely damaged by Russian shelling.
According to the First Lady, the exhibition is not just about destruction; it is also about resistance and recovery—about how Ukrainians are saving their cultural heritage with their own hands and documenting crimes so that reconstruction can become possible.
