To Preserve a Heritage: The Story of the Ukrainian Immigration in the United States, the Ukrainian Museum's popular photographic exhibition opened at the Lvivskyj Palats Mystetstv in Lviv on June 4, 1997 and was on view through August 2, 1997. Since that time it has been shown in Sambir, (Lviv oblast') and subsequently will travel to Lutsk, Rivne and Ostroh and other cities in the country. In 1998 the exhibition was shown in the Ternopl's'kyi Kraieznavchyj Muzei (Ternopil Natural History Museum ) and in the Chernivtsi Museum of Bukovyns'ka Diaspora.

Vera Skop a member of The Ukrainian Museum's Board of Trustees, who was in Ukraine at that time, represented the Museum at the opening of the exhibition in Lviv. She reported that the event drew a large crowd of people, among them such luminaries as Vasyl Otkovych, the director of the Lviv National Museum, Oksana Kodratiuk, director of the International Center of Enlightenment, Education and Culture, and Mykola Shymchuk, president of the Lviv Artist's Union, among many others.

The exhibition has traveled to Ukraine under the auspices of the United States Information Service and first opened in Kyiv in 1996 at the National Museum of Literature.