Taras Shevchenko House-Museum at Maydan Nezalezhnosti

This is one of three museums dedicated to Shevchenko in Kyiv. The memorial museum transports visitors to the years 1846-47, when Shevchenko lived in Kyiv before his arrest in the case of the Cyril and Methodius Society. The building itself is a rarity of Kyiv buildings of the first half of the 19th century, built in 1835 and preserved to this day. This makes it truly unique.

The street on which Shevchenko lived was once called Goat Swamp. The poet lived here in the house of the secretary Ivan Zhitnytskyi. Over time, the house was reconstructed, but fell into disrepair. After the revolution, it was given to housing, but in 1925, the famous artist and professor of the Institute of Architecture Vasyl Krychevskyi did everything possible to restore the building. He was entrusted with the responsibility for the artistic decoration of the house-museum, the design of rooms, workshops and the garden. The museum was inaugurated on November 10, 1928, and from 1928 to 1941 it was replenished with works of Soviet artists. During the war, the museum was badly damaged, but the house remained. In the early 1990s, the exposition was reviewed. A wonderful garden is near the museum, the only manor garden of that time that has survived in the city center.