Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online

SUCHO is an initiative of over 1,500 international volunteers who are collaborating online to digitize and preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage. Since the start of the invasion, SUCHO has web-archived more than 5,000 websites and 50TB of data of Ukrainian cultural institutions, to prevent these websites from going offline. The websites range from national archives to local museums, from 3D tours of churches to children’s art centers.

We have donated digitization equipment to over 70 cultural heritage institutions, and are now raising funds for additional kits.

Our gallery of Ukrainian cultural heritage curates a selection of images from the web archives we have created, as well as newly-digitized materials.

We are also archiving memes from the war as a richly-annotated (and transcribed/annotated) data set for current and future historians and other scholars.

Donate

You can help us pay for our server costs by donating to our Open Collective. If you would like to specifically help buy digitization equipment to send to Ukrainian libraries, archives, and museums, you can donate to our digitization equipment fund. For U.S. based sponsors and donors, please use the SUCHO US Based Donation page. These donations are tax-deductible.