The Mykola Lysenko Memorial Apartment Museum (Kyiv, Saksahanskoho 95) announces an updated mission — 1000+ original manuscripts of the composer as a living resource for the new generation of Ukrainian musicians.
In September 2025 the Mykola Lysenko Memorial Apartment Museum announced an updated strategic mission. The museum is located in the apartment at Saksahanskoho 95 in Kyiv, where the composer Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko (1842-1912) — the father of Ukrainian classical music — lived his last fourteen years (1898-1912). In this apartment Lysenko completed work on the opera Taras Bulba, composed Eneida (1910), wrote numerous choral arrangements of Shevchenko texts. The museum's collection numbers over a thousand original manuscripts, music editions, epistolary, personal items of the composer.
The mission for the next decade focuses on three directions. The first — full digitisation of 1000+ manuscripts with high-quality 4K scanning, OCR recognition of musical text, an open online catalogue of partitures. The second — return of Lysenko to the living repertoire through partnership with the National Opera of Ukraine, Lviv Opera, Kyiv Philharmonic — supply of authentic editorial versions of partitures for performers. The third — an educational programme for young composers and pianists through master classes, scholarships for archive research, publishing programme of monographs on Lysenko's aesthetics. Cross-ref Phase 3.10 Gramophone Museum (Lysenko recordings in collections).
