On September 15, 2017 an opening of the exhibition “Central square of the town: chronicle pages” of author’s works of a well-known photojournalist, special correspondent of the regional newspaper “Narodne slovo”, Merited Journalist of Ukraine I.M.Demchuk took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The exhibition was opened within the initiated by the museum art project “At the crossroads of Elisavethrad – Kirovohrad Streets” to Day of the Town. The project is aimed at presentation of the town streets in photographs, showing succession of architectural language from the days of the town foundation till the modern time as an indissoluble history of construction of an integral urban environment, reproducing life of the dwellers and guest of the town, in order to excite curiosity in general public for studying their past.
   The exhibition presents more than 30 colour photographs of the central square of Kropyvnytskyi which appears as world where dwellers, keeping historical past and searching a way out of complex labyrinths of the present, create the future of Ukraine. Exposition is completed with format photoinstallations-collages created by the leading researcher of the museum, Merited Artist of Ukraine A.M.Nadezhdin. The photoinstallations-collages are a kind of chronicle of the history of the central square of the town, which at first was a town avenue, in the Soviet times and until recently had the name of a communist figure Kirov, and now is named after Heroes of Maidan.
   A prepared by the museum theme booklet “Central square of the town: chronicle pages” was presented during the exhibition opening.
The first visitors of the exhibition were youth – students of Art and Graphic Department of Art Faculty of Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko – and it is rather symbolic, because the future of our town and country is in their hands. “I adored this awesome and wonderful exhibition about our native town. It is rather unique and peculiar, and its architecture fascinates each dweller. I love my town!” – such an optimistic note was left in the Guest book by a young artist Viktoriia Slushchenko.

   On October 11, 2017 a meet-the-artist-event with Merited Journalist of Ukraine I.M.Demchuk and Merited Artist of Ukraine A.M.Nadezhdin – authors of the photo exhibition “Central square of the town: chronicle pages” within the art project “At the crossroads of Elisavethrad – Kirovohrad Streets”took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. Also a slide-show “Thumbing a photo album. Historical photos” was presented.
Pupils of Kirovohrad regional comprehensive educational complex of academic and aesthetic specialization, artistic intelligentsia and media representatives came to the event.
   The museum director V.V.Chernova told about the initiated by the museum in 2014 art project “At the crossroads of Elisavethrad – Kirovohrad Streets” dedicated to Town Day, within the framework of which such photo exhibitionshad already been presented: “Dvortsova Street – the past and the present” (2014), “Velyka Perspektyvna Street – from St. Elisaveta fortress to Guardian Angel of the town” (2015) and “From caryatid to high-tech. Allurement of facade plastic art of the town on Inhul” dedicated to the150th anniversary of an artist of architecture Ya. Pauchenko (2016).
   The authors of the photo exhibition were congratulated by deputy head of Culture and Tourism Department of Kirovohrad Town Council N.M.Chorna, who handed them Certificates of appreciation, and Merited Architect of Ukraine, a citizen of hounour V.Ye.Kryvenko, who noted the importance of such photo exhibitions which not only present architecture of the historic centre of the town Kropyvnytskyi with a historical name Elisavethrad, which was Kirovohrad until recent.
   All the presented were interested and fascinated by the presentation of slide-shows “Thumbing a photo album. Historical photos”, which demonstrated a real photo chronicle of the central square of the town beginning from the past century and until today.
And at the end of the event the authors of the photo exhibition autographed with pleasure prepared by the museum booklet “Central square of the town: chronicle pages”.