National Museum of Taras Shevchenko

In 1933, on the basis of the literary museum, which operated at the Taras Shevchenko Institute in Kharkov, the Gallery of Paintings by T. G. Shevchenko was founded, which began to operate in 1934. 106 Taras Shevchenko Institute transferred to the Gallery 106 original works of art by the artist.

In 1939, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of birth in Kiev, the Republican anniversary exhibition of Shevchenko was organized in the house of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, in which, in addition to art gallery exhibits, other materials from the archives and museums of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow , Leningrad , Saratov , Lvov , were presented, Baku

In 1940, the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR decided to organize the Central State Museum of T. G. Shevchenko in Kiev on the basis of the Republican Anniversary Exhibition, concentrating here all the original materials related to the life and work of T. G. Shevchenko. According to the decree, all materials from the exhibition, presented by various museums and institutions, were assigned to the museum, the exhibition of which was opened in April 1941 at the Mariinsky Palace . About 10,000 exhibits were collected.

The museum was discontinued with the outbreak of war . Only valuable exhibits managed to be evacuated to Novosibirsk before the German occupation (returned to Ukraine in 1944).

On April 24, 1949, a new exposition was opened in a room allotted by the government on 12 Shevchenka Boulevard.

The museum’s collection consists of unique values: the original paintings of Shevchenko , documents about his life and work, manuscripts of his poetry, rare photographs of the poet and his friends, the first works of Shevchenko with his autographs, almost all editions of the poet’s works and literature about him, starting with intravital and ending with modern domestic and foreign publications. In 24 halls there are more than 4000 exhibits.

The exposition halls present works by prominent artists, sculptors, writers and composers, which reflect the Shevchenko era, his life and work: artworks by Karl Bryullov , Ilya Repin , Vasily Tropinin , Ivan Kramsky , Vasily Sternberg , Ivan Sokolov , Mikhail Bashilov , Konstantin Trutovsky , Leo Zhemchuzhnikova , Ivan Soshenko , Michael Mikeshina , Sergei Vassilkovsky , Nicholas Samokisha , Athanasius Slastion , Photius Krasicki , Ivan Izhakevich , Basil Kasiyana , Michael Deregus , Carp Trokhymenko , Boris Smirnov and others; works of sculptors Fyodor Kamensky , Pyotr Klodt , Vladimir Beklemishev , Fyodor Balavensky , Ivan Kavaleridze , Mikhail Lysenko , Ivan Makogon , Peter Molchun , Valentin Znoba and others.

Several rooms exhibit materials testifying to the world significance of Shevchenko’s work, translations of his works into many foreign languages.

As of July 2002, the museum’s collection housed 28,007 exhibits of the main fund (paintings, graphics, decorative art, sculpture, archive, printed materials, books, photos, memorial items); support fund - 44 662. Total number - 72 669.

An audio guide is available .

Taras Shevchenko Literary Memorial House Museum

The wooden house was built in 1835 in the former “Goat Swamp” lane.

In this house, Taras Shevchenko settled after his return from Sednev in the spring of 1846. Two of his friends settled with Taras Shevchenko - artist Mikhail Sazhin and poet Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky .

Taras Grigoryevich’s premise consisted of a small room with windows facing the street, and a workshop located in the attic.

Over time, the house and the estate underwent changes. By 1876, it had grown to 325 square fathoms. The design of facades and floor plans of the house also gradually changed.

On August 12, 1925, the Kiev District Executive Committee ordered the municipal services department to resettle residents, repair and transfer the house to the Academy of Sciences. Vasily Krichevsky owns not only the very question of restoration, but also the artistic direction of the design of the house-museum, the compilation of art projects of rooms, a workshop and a garden.

On November 10, 1928, the museum was inaugurated for visitors.

T. G. Shevchenko Memorial House-Museum

In 1859, during his last visit to the capital of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko chose to rent an apartment on the outskirts of the city - the picturesque Priorke .

In 1989, on the site of the house on Vyshgorodskaya street, 5, where he lived for two weeks, a building was built in which the T.G.Shevchenko Memorial House-Museum was opened.

Basically, the exhibition consists of things donated to the museum by the inhabitants of Kiev, the descendants of people who personally communicated with the poet. In the rooms of the museum reproduced the life of Kiev from the Shevchenko era.

Near the house for 400 years now an oak has been rising, under the canopy of which, according to contemporaries, Taras Shevchenko came to sit.

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• National Museum of Taras Shevchenko: [Album] / Order: T. Andrushchenko, S. Galchenko. - K .: Mistetstvo, 2002 .-- 224 p. - ISBN 966-577-136-1 .

• Official site of the Shevchenko Museum
• kobzar.info