Literary Museum named after Jozef Chekhovich

In 1957, in the article “Preserve the memory of the great” (magazine “Culture and Life”) Stanislav Fita and Lech Ludorovsky called for the creation of museums of Boleslav Prus , Henryk Senkevich and Jozef Chekhovich. Friends of Chekhovich, Felix Arashkevich, Konrad Belsky , Vaclav Gralevsky and Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski , the idea was welcomed and transferred to the funds of the future museum objects and books related to the poet. The Lublin authorities also supported the idea, and on September 9, 1968 - on the 29th anniversary of the death of the poet - the Yuzef Chekhovich Literary Museum was opened, at 10 on Narutovich Street ^{[1] [3]} .

In 1999, the museum left the building in which it had been working for more than 30 years, and for three years it was temporarily located in the Vincentia Paul Manor . On September 9, 2002, the museum opened its doors at its modern address - Zolotaya Street, 3, which was donated to the city by the family of philanthropists Ryabininov ^[1] .

The first director of the museum, Joseph Zemba , began to expand the museum’s collections with materials about other writers, including Konrad Belsky, Wenceslas Gralevsky, Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski, Anna Kamenskaya and Jan Spevake ^[3] . Today, exhibits dedicated to such Lublin writers as Franciska Arnsteinova , Anthony Madey, Vaclav Mrozovsky, Josef Nikodem Klosovsky are also presented here , Joseph Lobodovsky , Stanislav Boyarchuk , Jan Potzeck , and others. In addition, the museum contains manuscripts of other Polish writers: Cheslav Milos , Zbigniew Herbert , Jerzy Zagursky , Julian Tuvim , Constant Ildefons Galchinsky ^[2] and others.

• Official site of the Literary Museum named after Jozef Chekhovich. (polish)