On July 1, 2022, a public lecture-presentation on the topic: "Honored architect of Ukraine Vitaly Kryvenko: life, creativity, public activity" was held in the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum for the Day of Architecture of Ukraine.
    Leading researcher of the museum, art critic, Honored Artist of Ukraine Andriy Nadezhdin demonstrated a photo-documentary presentation about the famous Kropyvnytskyi architect, Honorary Citizen of the city of Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi), Honored Architect of Ukraine Vitalyi Kryvenko (1937-2020) and a video recording of the interview of the architect to journalists of the TV and radio company "TTV ", made in the museum during the presentation of the regional award in the field of architecture, heraldry and vexillology and decorative and applied arts named after Yakov Pauchenko in the nomination "heraldry and vexillology" in 2018.
    Vitalyi Yefremovich Kryvenko was the chief architect of the city of Kirovohrad (Kropyvnytskyi) in 1976-1987, is the author and co-author of more than 50 projects of social and cultural buildings, monuments and improvement objects in Kropyvnytskyi, the initiator of the development and revival of heraldry in Ukraine, author of the coat of arms and flag of the city of Kropyvnytskyi, author and co-author of coats of arms, flags of administrative districts and cities of regional importance of the Kirovohrad region, as well as stamps, jubilee coins and other symbols, author of numerous articles in the mass media on issues of heraldry and vexillology, architecture and urban planning, co-author catalog album "Symbols of Kirovohrad region" (2002) and collection "Symbols of administrative districts and cities of regional significance of Kirovohrad region" (2004).
    In May 2021, the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum exhibited the exhibition "First, the artist: Exhibition of paintings and graphic works of the Honored Architect of Ukraine Vitalyi Kryvenko", dedicated to the Memorial Day of the Honored Architect of Ukraine Vitalyi Efremovich Kryvenka, as part of the artistic project "In the artist's workshop".
    The event was attended by the head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Honored Architect of Ukraine Yurii Penyaz and member of the board of the organization, member of the National Union of Architects and Artists of Ukraine Iryna Kukharenko, who presented the museum's fund collection with an architectural model of a complex of buildings for the development of the historical part of the city at the corner of the central streets Teatralna (former Lenin) and Volodymyr Panchenko (former Decabristiv), designed by leading architects in the mid-1980s.
    The director of the museum, Vita Chernova, presented the architects with a certificate of thanks for their active participation in joint cultural and artistic events and on the occasion of celebrating the Day of Architecture of Ukraine.