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5 Hryven National Museum of Taras Shevchenko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2009 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ 5 ГРИВЕНЬ 2009 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv holds the largest collection of works by Ukraine's defining literary and artistic figure — over 4,000 original pieces, including paintings, drawings, and manuscripts. The museum itself occupies a building constructed in 1949, its opening delayed by the war and the slow postwar reconstruction of a city that had suffered catastrophic destruction under German occupation. Shevchenko's status in Ukrainian national consciousness was complicated throughout the Soviet period; celebrated officially, yet the full political weight of his writing was carefully managed by censors.