Maksym Rylsky Museum

Maxym Rylsky Museum
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Location7 Maxym Rylsky St, Kyiv, Ukraine
Coordinates50°23′45″N 30°30′50″E / 50.39592°N 30.51401°E / 50.39592; 30.51401

Maksym Rylsky Museum (officially known as Kyiv Literary and Memorial Museum of Maksym Rylsky Ukrainian: Київський літературно-меморіальний музей Максима Рильського) is one of the museums in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to Ukrainian poet Maksym Rylsky.

It was founded on 4 May 1966 and was opened for visitors two years later.

The museum is located at the house where the poet lived for the last 13 years of his life.

The museum exposition includes a collection of poet's manuscripts, a memorial library numbering nearly 10,000 volumes, personal belongings, and art samples from the period 1940–1960s.

The museum survived 3-time reexposition (1968, 1985, 2006).