On October 2, 2018 a creative meeting with Merited Journalist of Ukraine Ihor Demchuk took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. Also, a multimedia art edition “At the crossroads of Yelisavethrad – Kirovohrad. Series of exhibition of author’s photos by Ihor Demchuk” was presented.
    Exposition and exhibition project to Town Day “At the crossroads of Yelisavethrad – Kirovohrad” was initiated by the museum in 2014. The project is aimed at engaging people to learn about their past, showing the town streets in photographs that depict architecture from the town foundation to the present as a continued history of construction of an integral urban environment and reproduce life of its dwellers. The project is collaboration between the museum and Merited Journalist of Ukraine Ihor Demchuk - a well-known photo journalist, special correspondent of the regional newspaper “Narodne slovo”, first laureate of municipal award of photo artists named after Vasyl Kovpak. It is his works where shown in the museum at the theme exhibition to Town Day in 2014-2018: “Dvortsova Street – the past and the present” (2014), “Velyka Perspektyvna Street – from St.Elisaveta fortress to Guardian Angel of the town” (2015), “From caryatid to High Tech. Allurement of facade plastic art of the town on Inhul” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of an artist of architecture Ya. Pauchenko (2016) “The town Central Square: chronicles” (2017) and “Tourism gems of Kropyvnytskyi town” (2018). The exhibitions also included photo collages, installations, and assemblage of Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin.
    Multimedia editorial on DVD has theme slide-shows and booklets of the exhibitions. The slide-show includes photographs from the collection of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, private collection of Ihor Demchuk, and internet-resources. The editorial was compiled by - Merited Artist of Ukraine, art historian, a leading researcher of the museum, curator of the photo exhibitions Andrii Nadezhdin.
    Worshipers of the photo artist works, those who are interested in photography and history of architecture of our town, and students of the Department of Journalism, Publishing, and Editing of the Philology and Journalism Faculty of Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after Volodymyr Vynnychenko together with their supervisor, senior lecturer, candidate of Philological Sciences Dmytro Shulha came to the meeting. All the present listened to Ihor Demchuk telling about his work in the museum project and the photo album “The city of five names. At the crossroads of styles and epochs. Architectural images of the city of Kropyvnytskyi captured by Ihor Demchuk” which was published recently in the publishing house “IMEKS-LTD” sponsored by Town Council of Kropyvnytskyi within the program of culture and tourism development. It was presented in the museum. The visitors looked at the fragments of theme slide-shows of the exhibitions shown in the museum.
    At the event, Nelia Chorna, deputy head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Town Council of Kropyvnytskyii, and Vitalii Kryvenko, honorary freeman of Kropyvnytskyi, Merited Architect of Ukraine, gave their speeches. A leading researcher of the museum Andrii Nadezhdin gave Certificate of acknowledgement and a souvenir cup with the logo of the project to Merited Journalist of Ukraine Ihor Demchuk.
    At the end of the meeting all the present received booklets of the exhibition of Ihor Demchuk’s photographs “Tourism gems of Kropyvnytskyi town” presented in the museum this year and DVD-disks with multimedia art museum editorial “At the crossroads of Yelisavethrad – Kirovohrad. Series of exhibition of author’s photos by Ihor Demchuk” signed by the author. The students learnt a lot of secrets of photo art during the workshop conducted by Merited Journalist of Ukraine Ihor Demchuk.