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Mykhailo Hrushevsky Museum


Location: Lviv, St. I.Franka, 154.

Mikhail Hrushevsky MuseumOn May 1, 1998 the Hrushevsky Museum received the status of an independent state institution. The grand opening took place on the eve of Independence Day — August 22, 2000.

It is located in the villa, where together with his family during 1902-1914 years lived internationally recognized historian, scientist-researcher, statesman and politician, chairman of the Ukrainian Central Rada, the first President of the Ukrainian People’s Republic — Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

The six exposition halls cover almost all stages of life and colossal work of the outstanding historian. A special emphasis is made on the Lviv period of M. Hrushevskyi’s activity, when Hrushevskyi’s great scientific talent as a scientist, historian-researcher, literary critic, professor at Lviv University, head of Ukrainian scientific institutes and publications: the scientific society named after T. Shevchenko, «Lyshevskyi». T. Shevchenko, «Literary and Scientific Herald», «Notes of NOSH», «Ukrainian-Russian Publishing Union» and others. His scientific works on the history of Ukraine, literature, ethnography, folklore, sociology are highly appreciated by scientists all over the world.

M. Hrushevsky Museum exhibits.The pride of the collection is the original editions of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, his photos, personal belongings, letters and documents of the scientist, periodicals, a selection of authentic documents; photos of his wife Maria Silvestrovna from Voyakovskie, her books, translations, articles, epistolary; photos and manuscripts of his daughter Kateryna Hrushevska, a talented researcher; household items, furniture, photos and materials of the Hrushevsky family; artistic paintings; editions, old printed books, periodicals of 1900-1940; reprints of classics of Ukrainian literature, contemporaries of Mykhailo Hrushevsky; a selection of authentic materials of the First World War, the period of the Ukrainian Revolution and the Central Rada.

The museum is a modern historical and cultural institution with a rich collection of relics and modern scientific method of their presentation. The exposition of the memorial museum of the first President of Ukraine Mykhailo Hrushevskyi is a synthesis of scientific research in the field of his activities and museum experience of creating the best museum expositions. In addition, a whole complex of repair and restoration works was carried out and Hrushevsky's estate, his villa, in particular, the interior of the house were restored.

Participants of the sixth summit, which took place in 1999 <a href=in Lviv, nine Presidents of Central and Eastern Europe laid a presidential garden on the memorial territory of the museum.

The circle of good friends, patrons and admirers of the museum in Ukraine and the diaspora is expanding, therefore, there is hope for further creative contacts of the museum with scientific, cultural institutions, societies and foundations in Ukraine and abroad.

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