Zhytomyr Regional Literary Museum

Zhytomyr Regional Literary Museum was founded in 1990. It is located in an old building, which has two floors and is created in the style of Art Nouveau. The house itself was built in 1907 and served as the apartment house. Literary Museum moved into this room in 2001 alone. In addition to the museum there were other tenants premises. Thus, the museum side by side with them until 2007. Since 2008, the building is undergoing renovation works on the reconstruction of each room, where, and transferred the museum.

Now fully Literary Museum are 8 rooms, 5 of which are exposition halls, and 3 - the exhibition. The total area of ​​the museum is 500 square meters. In addition to these halls of the museum has a branch in the form of literary-memorial museum O. de Balzac , which can be found in the village of Supremacy that Ruzhyn area. Literary Museum collects materials about the life of poets, writers, artists and other famous people of this region of 19-20 century. To date, there are demonstrations of about 7,000 different items collected employees of the museum. Some of the materials handed themselves writers, poets or their relatives.

The main exhibition of the museum includes three exhibitions dedicated to the local theater artist Ivan Shevchenko, who worked for many years the chief artist of the Regional Music and Drama Theater. The second exhibition about the life of no less famous poet and translator Boris Tena (Nicholas Homichevsky). He is famous for his translations into Ukrainian "Odyssey" and "Iliad", written by Homer. The third exhibition is dedicated to the composer M. Skorulsky. Now the museum hosts a variety of events, presentations of new books, meetings with famous people, evenings dedicated to different dates and the people.

Literary Museum is open to visitors every day except Monday.