Museum of Literature

Literary museums are a relatively young group of museums, the formation of which begins in the second half of the 19th century. The idea of ​​a literary museum in Russia is connected with the veneration of the memory of A. S. Pushkin. In 1879, the first Pushkin Museum was opened at the Alexander Lyceum . In 1905, the Pushkin House was opened at the Academy of Sciences, combining the functions of a museum and a research institution.

From the 1920s, museums dedicated to the history of Russian literature as a whole began to appear in the USSR (the Literature Museum at the V.I. Lenin All-Union Library (1921) in Moscow, the Central Museum of Fiction, Criticism and Journalism (1930 )) In 1934, these museums were merged into the State Literary Museum. The Pushkin House was transformed in the 1930s into the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , while retaining the museum.

In the 1960s and 80s, along with memorial museums began to appear dedicated to the history of literature of a certain region as a whole.

Polish

• Adam Mickiewicz Literary Museum (Warsaw) (since 1950)
• Yuzef Chekhovich Literary Museum (since 1968) in Lublin

Russian

Central

• Literary Museum at the All-Union Library. V.I. Lenin in Moscow (1921). In 1934, merged with the Central Museum of Fiction.
• Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences - Pushkin House (1905)
• Moscow State Literary Museum (since 1934). Formed by the association of the Literary Museum with the Central Museum of Fiction.
• Central Museum of Fiction, Criticism and Journalism (1930). In 1934, merged with the Literary Museum.

Regional

• Belgorod Literary Museum (since 1999)
• Voronezh Literary Museum (since 1922)
• The Far Eastern Literary Museum in Khabarovsk was opened on December 24, 1981, on the 80th birthday of the founder of the Far Eastern Writing Organization, Alexander Fadeev . The museum collection totaled 30 thousand exhibits of the main fund. In 1992, the museum became part of the Regional Museum. N. I. Grodekova, the exposition is removed in storage. ^[one]
• Krasnoyarsk Literary Museum (since 1997)
• Nizhny Novgorod Literary Museum named after A.M. Gorky (since 1934)
• Museum of Ossetian literature. K. Kh. Khetagurova in Vladikavkaz. Branch of the Museum of the Terek Region (National Museum of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania).
• Museum of Orlovites Writers (1957). Branch of the Museum of I. S. Turgenev .
• United Museum of Writers of the Urals (1980)
• Rostov Literary Museum of A.P. Chekhov (since 1935)
• Chuvash Literary Museum named after K.V. Ivanov (Cheboksary)
• Yakut Literary Museum named after P. A. Oyunsky (since 1970)

Monographic

See the article Literary and Memorial Museums .

The largest monographic literary museums with a large number of branches are the museums of Leo Tolstoy , Gorky and Mayakovsky . ^[2]

Ukrainian

• Ivano-Frankivsk Literary Museum of the Carpathian region (since 1986)
• Odessa State Literary Museum (since 1977)
• Kharkov Literary Museum (since 1988)
• Kherson Literary Museum (since 1991)

Others

• Dublin Irish Literature Museum (since 1991)
• Lithuanian Literary Museum of A.S. Pushkin (Vilnius) (since 1949)
• Malaysian Literary Museum of Malacca (since 1984)
• Slovak Literary Museum named after A.S. Pushkin in Brodzyany (since 1979)
• Estonian Literary Museum (since 1940) in Tartu.
• Japanese Shusaku Endo Literary Museum (since 2000) in Nagasaki

• German list of literary museums in the world
• Literary Archive | Literary society
• Literary tourism ( German: Literaturtourismus )
• House Museum | Museum of Literature and Memorial
• German list of writers' house-museums in the world
• Moscow State Museum of A.S. Pushkin (since 1961)
• Museums of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
• Shakhmatovo (Blok estate)

Literary museums on the website of the Russian Museum Encyclopedia.