Myrhorod David Guramishvili Literary Memorial Museum

Myrhorod David Guramishvili Literary Memorial Museum

The museum’s exhibition tells the story of the life and work of the outstanding Georgian poet Davit Guramishvili, who lived in Ukraine for more than 30 years and is buried in the cemetery in the city of Myrhorod.

The museum is the only Georgian museum outside of Georgia. It maintains sister-museum relations with the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in the town of Surami (Georgia), where the outstanding daughter of the Ukrainian people is buried.

The museum presents the works of the writer, which harmoniously combines descriptions of Ukrainian and Georgian landscapes with poetry based on Ukrainian songs. There are exhibits of Georgian antiquity: furniture and arts and crafts, tools, national clothes, a collection of ancient Georgian coins of the XVII-XVIII centuries, armor of a Georgian warrior and unique weapons of the XVIII century, ethnic musical instruments. Excursions are conducted to the background of Georgian melodies.

Guramishvili lived in Myrhorod for the last 32 years of his life, he was buried here in the Church of the Ascension in 1792. The museum was opened in 1969 with the active assistance of Ukrainian writers. Visitors are given the opportunity to be photographed in ethnic costumes of the peoples of the Caucasus.