In 1907, the Historical Bulletin published an article by O.K. Khrebtov, in which its author proclaimed the opening of a museum with the eloquent title “Historical Mezhyhirya Museum named after Grand Duchess Oleksandra Petrivna.” It is known that Professor Yavornytskyi advised Mr. Khrebtov on starting the museum. Obviously, during the revolution events, a museum with such a name was doomed. Therefore, we don’t know what happened to the exhibits from the collection of the Mezhyhirya Museum.
The practice of museum work in Mezhyhirya was continued by students of the art and ceramics college located in the buildings of the former monastery. The church of Peter and Paul built in 1774 by the last Cossack Ataman Petro Kalnyshevsky was used as a museum. What happened to the collection of this museum is also unknown.
In Mezhyhirya, Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko appeared in different guises. He first showed up there as a traveler, researcher, and ethnographer. It is known that Shevchenko visited the monastery on June 13, 1843, together with Panteleimon Kulish and Oleksiy Florovych Senchylo-Stefanovsky.
Shevchenko visited Mezhyhirya for the second time in April-September 1846 while traveling around Kyiv region in between the tasks of the Kyiv Archaeographical Commission.
For the third time, Taras Shevchenko returned to Mezhyhirya after his physical death in the form of immortalizing his memory on a memorial plate, which was made in the sixties of the 19th century at the Mezhyhirya faience factory by order of Panteleimon Kulish.
