Mykola Lysenko Apartment-Museum

Mykola Lysenko Apartment-Museum is one of the branches of the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture, located in the building where the composer spent the last fourteen years of his life (1898-1912). Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) is the father of the Ukrainian national music school, composer of the operas Taras Bulba, Natalka Poltavka, The Drowned Maiden, Christmas Night, over eight hundred choral and solo songs, and founder of Ukrainian ethnomusicology. The apartment interiors, personal library, Bechstein grand piano, and research study are preserved as they were during the composer's lifetime. The museum exposition holds original score manuscripts, printed editions, Lysenko's correspondence with Mykhailo Starytsky, Ivan Franko, Borys Hrinchenko, personal photo archives, 1880s-1910s concert posters, personal items, and furniture. A separate programme is devoted to the composer's ethnomusicological heritage — his collecting and harmonising of Ukrainian folk songs, which became the foundation for the entire subsequent tradition of national professional music. The museum regularly hosts chamber concerts, academic readings for anniversary dates, lectures on Ukrainian opera history, and musicological seminars for National Music Academy students.