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The House He Built: 1902 and Fourteen Years In It

The House He Built: 1902 and Fourteen Years In It

Exhibition

The House He Built: 1902 and Fourteen Years In It

Ivan Franko Literary Memorial Museum27 October 2025 — 26 December 2025Літературно-меморіальний музей Івана Франка

A house built with his own money after forty years of rented rooms — about what a study of one's own meant to a man who had written in other people's.

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Housing as a Condition of Work

The exhibition asks a question rarely put to literature: where exactly it was written.

The Study Is the Smallest Room in the House

Nine square metres against twenty-two in the sitting room.

The Floor Plans Had to Be Redrawn

Not one original construction drawing survives.

A Joiner's Invoice for the Writing Desk

A document that dates the desk more precisely than any memoir.

The House He Built: An Exhibition About a Study of One's Own

Forty years of rented rooms, then fourteen in a house of his own.

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