Address: 22a Volodymyrska Str., 01025 Kyiv
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Director: Skrypka Leonid |
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| Deputy Director: Khodorovs`kyi Mykhailo |
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| Deputy Director: Avramenko Valerii |
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The Central State Archives Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine (hereinafter - the TsDAMLM) of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was founded on 4 May 1966 by Decree No. 357 adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR on proposal by the Archive Division under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and creative unions of the republic. The Archive was opened on 1 August 1967.
The TsDAMLM of Ukraine is located on the premises of former Sofia seminary - a historical and cultural monument dating back to the second half of XVIIIth century (1763-1767) in the territory of the National Conservancy Sofia Kyivska.
In a village Pluty located in Obukhiv District of Kyiv Region, a structural unit of the TsDAMLM of Ukraine - Literary and Artistic Pluty - is functioning. Archival documents, memorial objects, and the library of playwright O. Korniychuk and his wife - writer V.Vasylevska, are kept safe and exhibited there.
The current name of the Central State Archives Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine (the TsDAMLM of Ukraine) was assigned to the Archives by Decree No. 415 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 21 July 1992 and Decree No. 35 of the Main Archival Division under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated 31 July 1992.
The archives museum contains funds of government institutions, creative unions and public organizations, including funds of institutions and companies that were in operation in the XIXth and in the beginning of the XXth centuries. Documents containing information on the state and development of the Ukrainian culture in 1920 ties and end of 1930ies are kept here.
Most of the funds of government institutions, creative unions and public organizations belonging to the after-war period are the documents of the Committee of Taras Shevchenko National Awards of Ukraine; of the creative unions of architects, journalists, cinema makers, compositors, writers, artists, actors of Ukraine; of theaters, film studios, publishing houses etc.
The archives museum keeps safe seventeen collections. These are materials of the Ukrainian necropolis; folk songs dating back to 1897-1919 collected by G. Yachnitsky; documents of prominent Ukrainian theater and cinema actors; musical arts; fine arts objects from Ukrainian art exhibitions; a collection of book-plates collected by Olexiyiv - 5146 stock units collected over period 1868 - 1985, works by approximately 500 artists; a unique collection of book graphics, which, among other, contains the covers of the first Ukrainian literary and arts magazines, almanacs, and collections. The collection of documents of the people of literature and arts created by the TsDAMLM of Ukraine in 1992 consists of the documents provided by archives of such institutions and agencies as the Prosecutor's Office, courts, and bodies of the KGB of the USSR, mainly in copies. Until 2001, the Archives Museum preserves a collection entitled "Materials of the Western-European People of Literature and Arts of XVI-XIX Centuries" (f. 441, 5154 items). In 2001, according to Decree No. 1202 dated 18 September 2001 of the Cabinet of Ministers "On withdrawal of documents from the National Archives Fund and transfer thereof to the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany", 5119 items from this collection were returned to the State Library in Berlin.
The TsDAMLM of Ukraine is the biggest treasury in Ukraine containing literary and arts funds of personal origin. These are funds of writers, literary critics, translators, journalists, fine art experts, theater historians, opera singers and crooners, theater and cinema actors, circus actors, stage directors, artists, architects, sculptors, composers, musicians-performers, folklorists and other people of literature and arts.
The Archives is particularly proud of the autographs to Taras Shevchenko's poems "Thought" ("Nashcho Meni Chorni Brovy"), "Dream" ("Na Panshchyni Pshenytsiu Zhala…") and some other. The time period before the Revolution is represented by the documents of family archives of architects V. and O. Beretti; artists I.Yizhakevych, F. Krasytsky, G. Diadchenko; composers K. Stetsenko, M. Tutkovsky; the high priests of the Ukrainian theater M. Zankovetska, M. Kropyvnytsky, S. Tobilevych and others.
Among the archives collections of later periods, the fund of a poet and academician P. Tychyna, is the most complete one both by scope and content. The documents of writers M. Bazhan, M. Rylsky, V. Sosiura, P. Voronko, I. Senchenko are also of great interest.
The TsDAMLM of Ukraine also preserves safe documents of personal funds of Ukrainian writers that were persecuted for political reasons: V. Bobrynsky, M. Drai-Khmara, M. Zerov, G. Kosynka, Ye. Pluzhnyk and others.
The Archives Museum has about thirty personal funds of cultural workers that went through the hell of Stalin's GULAGs: B. Antonenko-Davydovych, Ostap Vyshnia, V. Hzhytsky, G. Kochur etc.
A significant group of funds are personal funds of the masters of 60 - V. Stus, I. Svitlychny, Ye. Sverstiuk, O. Zalyvakha, Alla Horska and other.
Since the beginning of 1990-s, the Archives Museum has been actively collecting documents of the people of literature and arts belonging to the Ukrainian Diaspora in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the USA, Germany and other countries of the world: Ivan Bahriany, Vira Vovk, Marta Hai, O. Hai-Holovka, I. Koshelivets, L. Morozova, D. Nytchenko, Bohdan Podolianko, R. Rakhmanny, Yar Slavutych, Hanna Cherin etc.
The TSDAMLM of Ukraine is different from other archives by its structure; it combines the functions of an archives and a museum, which promotes efficient use of the NAF of Ukraine.
Among the components of the exposition are memorial study rooms of the Ukrainian cultural workers of the XXth century: poet A. Malyshko and composer P. Maiboroda; writers A. Holovko, I. Mykytenko, P. Panch, L. Pervomaisky, N. Rybak, Yu. Smolych, M. Stelmakh, Yu. Yanovsky; film director and writer O. Dovzhenko; a studio of artist M. Hlushchenko. These are primarily room interiors that reflect the life and work of these people of arts. In the studies are displayed furniture, writing utensils, household objects, graphic arts pieces dating back to the end of XIX-XX centuries, as well as unique printed materials.
The TsDAMLM of Ukraine has expositions devoted to the Western-European music geniuses of XVI-XIXth centuries - I. S. Bach and its sons, J. B. Lulli, G. F. Teleman, W. A.Mozart, L. V. Beethoven; to the writers of "Prague School" - Olexandr Oles, Oleh Olzhych, Olena Teliha, Yevhen Malaniuk, Leonid Mosendz; singer I. Kozlovsky; writers - laureates of Shevchenko prize - O. Honchar, P. Zahrebelny; film director and actor, founder of the Ukrainian theater of the XXth century Les Kurbas; historian, publicist, public figure V.Lypynsky; artist Lyudmyla Morozova; writer Iryna Vilde, and architecture historian M. Tsapenko.
Over recent years, solid international expositions have been created on the basis of the Archives Museum. They are devoted to the key events in the lives of Ukrainian people, our state, and among their topics are as follows: 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian work emigration to Canada, Ukrainians in Russia, Nashoho Tsvitu Po Vsiomu Svity (Our blossom - all around the world), Ukrainian - German historical connections, 50th anniversary of accession of the Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR, Shchedry Vechir - Dobry Vechir, Tusla - Ukrainian Land etc.
In order to ensure efficient search for archives documents, printed materials, and museum objects, scientific and reference aids have been established in the Archives Museum, a system of catalogues is functioning, and an information and search system, the two databases of which (Archives Funds and Institutions) contain information on the availability of documents for their further use in publications, radio- and TV-programs and demonstration in exhibitions, has been automated.
There is a reading room in the TsDAMLM of Ukraine, which may be used by persons interested in archives documents.
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