Room-Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Lviv

Room-Museum of Taras Shevchenko

The Room-Museum of Taras Shevchenko was opened on 7 March 2004. It is based on original works by Lviv artists who, over eight expeditions (1997–2003), travelled along the routes of the Kobzar (Ukraine, Vilnius, St Petersburg, Kazakhstan). About 30 artists took part in the trips altogether, both young artists and well-known masters. In Ukraine alone the artists travelled 9 thousand km. In that time they created over a hundred canvases.

The core of the museum consists of paintings by V. Patyk, Z. Ketsal, P. Sypniak, O. Skop, Ye. Manyshyn, Yu. Lesiuk, M. Lukiv, O. Kosar, O. Krokhmaliuk, P. Krokhmaliuk, V. Stohnut, O. Korovai, M. Demets, S. Mikhnovskyi, V. Yatskiv, L. Yatskiv, D. Paruta, M. Hrymaliuk, I. Havryshkevych and Ye. Shcherba, participants of the expeditions to Shevchenko places, as well as paintings by V. Ostrovskyi, I. Kryslach, B. Musiievskyi, V. Stadnychuk, H. Troian, A. Sydorenko, I. Yarema, Ye. Beznisko, M. Krystopchuk, I. Kopchyk and S. Dobrovolskyi from Australia, and works by the sculptors R. Romanovych, Ya. Motyka, B. Romanets, A. Sukhorskyi and others.

A club, «In the Kobzar’s Parlour», has been opened at the museum for middle and senior schoolchildren of Lviv. These are periodic meetings with interesting people: artists, poets, writers, actors, everyone who has contributed with their talent to honouring Shevchenko’s name.

A separate exposition consists of various editions of the «Kobzar» donated both by Lviv residents and by people from other parts of Ukraine, as well as by guests from abroad. Part of the museum is a library with Shevchenko’s works of different years of publication, catalogues of museums named after him, and fiction about him.

Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00, except Monday.