[1] For the needs of the museum in 1900–1901, a building on the outskirts of Chernihiv was rebuilt and reequipped, where the craft class of the orphanage was located.

The collection of autographs was transferred to the Department of Manuscripts of the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

The collection of autographs was transferred to the Manuscripts Department of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

Among them are 18 original letters from Taras Shevchenko, about 30 autographs of works (in particular, "Schodennik"), over 20 personal documents of the poet.

The collection included more than 80 letters and records about Shevchenko's funeral, his personal belongings (an easel, a palette, painting and engraving equipment, a chair, a bottle, a shirt, etc.