Museum Features
The Dostoyevsky Museum has several parts:
- The Writer’s Memorial Apartment – the museum's central part
- The Literary Exhibit, dedicated to the writer's biography and creation
- The Exhibit Halls, for exhibits of contemporary art
- The Theater, in which the White Theater presents its performances, as well as the museum's partner theaters: "Puppet Format", "Takoy Theatre", and other local, national, and international theaters.
Over the years, the museum's collection has increased many times over. It currently includes a large collection of graphic and applied art and a significant collection of photographs. The museum library holds about 24,000 volumes and a small collection of manuscripts. The collection has continued growing due to gifts from visitors, friends of the museum, and Dostoevsky scholars.
Every November, the museum hosts an international scholarly conference "Dostoyevsky and World Culture," and a journal of the same name is published with the conference proceedings.
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