Attractions of Lviv region

The Sokalshchyna Museum was opened in 1981 to mark the 30th anniversary of Chervonohrad's accession to Ukraine. About 1000 exhibits: a unique collection of works of folk art, household items, antique furniture. The specificity of the museum's exposition is that it presents the folk art of Sokal region, very original and original, which testifies to the sophistication and talent of Sokal residents. The exposition includes "Dobryachyn" black-and-white embroidered shirts, bouquets of spring flowers on "Zavishensky" shirts. Sokalshchyna is famous for its masters of embroidery: black embroidery is a rarity of the museum, each shirt is an exclusive product, and no ornament is repeated. Samples of wedding costumes impress with their sophistication - in one shirt the master used 6-7 different techniques. The pride of the museum is an exhibition of unique samples of black ceramics and unique Easter eggs by T. Gorodetsky. Also interesting is the interior of Sokal housing in the late XIX - early XX centuries.

The Solomiya Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum is located in the former house of the singer, which she bought in 1903, at the zenith of her creative career. The museum was opened on the initiative of her niece O. Bandrovska in 1989 after the restoration of the house. The singer's personal belongings, concert dresses, photos and documents are collected in the recreated interiors of the rooms. The exposition tells about Krushelnytska's childhood, the history of her artistic activity in Lviv, Vienna, Paris, Warsaw, Milan and other opera houses around the world. Concerts are regularly held in the music salon of the museum.

The estate-museum of Stepan Bandera in the village of Volia-Zaderevatska was opened in the house where Andriy Bandera, the father of the OUN leader, lived in 1933-36. During these years, Andriy Bandera served as a priest in the Zadereva Church of St. Michael the Archangel, engaged in legal and underground activities. Stepan Bandera came to him on vacation. Later there was a school in this house. The museum was founded in the first years of Ukraine's independence by Bandera's sister O. Ivanov. In the first room is the pedigree of the Bandera family. In the second - the chapel where Stepan's father baptized children. In the third room there are documents, photos, OUN-UPA leaflets. Near the house there is a park named after Stepan Bandera. The reconstructed hideout is a disguised rebel shelter.

The Stepan Bandera Museum was opened in one of the premises of the Lviv National Agrarian University, on the second floor of the main building. In 1928-33, when it was a branch of Lviv Polytechnic, the future leader of the OUN studied here. He was immediately arrested for political activity. The exhibition presents photographs, literary works, several sheets from the personal file of the ideologue of Ukrainian nationalism.

The Museum of the History of the Judicial Cherry is located in the historic building of the People's House (XIX century). In 1897, the writer Ivan Franko spoke here, as evidenced by a plaque. The museum exposition has 350 original exhibits that cover the history of the city from ancient times to the present day. In the archeological collection: fragments of mammoth tusks, flint axes, sickles, fragments of pottery, clay female statuettes, etc. A separate exhibition is dedicated to the polemicist writer I. Vyshensky, a native of Sudova Vyshna.

Svirz Castle from the "Golden Horseshoe of Lviv Region" is a picturesque medieval building in the Renaissance style, a unique monument of defensive architecture of the XV-XVII centuries. Originally built as a fortress, but after the reconstruction of the XVII century. acquired the noble features of a magnate's residence. The first fortifications on the Belz Mountains, surrounded by lakes and swamps, date back to 1484 (the ruins of the tower and the grotto to the right of the entrance). Svirsk Castle was first mentioned in documents in 1530, when it belonged to the Svirz nobles. In the middle of the XVII century. it was rebuilt and significantly strengthened by Count O. Zettner, according to one version, inviting from Lviv a famous fortification engineer P. Grodzitsky. The castle with a moat and a bridge is divided into two multi-level courtyards, surrounded by Renaissance towers and houses. Having become a comfortable residence, Svirsk Castle was able to withstand several Turkish sieges, but before that it was captured by the Cossack troops of B. Khmelnytsky. He was badly injured during the First and Second World Wars. In Soviet times, Svirsk Castle became the property of the Union of Architects as the House of Creativity, but the restoration was never completed. It is planned to transfer the castle to a private investor under the terms of the concession.

The town hall in the center of the market square of the city of Turki was built in 1907 on the site of an old wooden building of the magistrate. The Turk gained the right to self-government in 1730. The new town hall is made in Art Nouveau style. It is still used for its intended purpose - it houses the Turkiv City Council. Also in the town hall is the People's Museum "Boykivshchyna", which tells about the history and culture of this region. Permanent exhibitions: "History of the Turks from ancient times to the present", "Ethnography: clothing, household items", "Tools in subsistence farming", "Room of ethnographer M. Zubritsky", "Ukrainian Diaspora".

Gorodok City Hall in the style of classicism was built in 1832 as the premises of the magistrate of Gorodok. The two-storey U-shaped building is topped by a clock tower with balconies, which houses a clock with four dials (2004) and the coat of arms of the city. Previously, the tower was completed by a sharp roof with a weather vane. The Horodok Town Hall building is still used for its intended purpose - the Horodok City Council sits in it. The Horodok Museum of History and Local Lore (2010) is also located on the ground floor. A wide exposition of archeological finds, household items and folk clothing is presented. Separate stands are dedicated to the periods of the Liberation War of B. Khmelnytsky (the battle of Gorodok in 1655) and the liberation struggle of 1918-20 (Volchukhiv operation of the UGA).

The high clock tower of the current Drohobych town hall rose above the city in 1927, when Drohobych returned to the Polish state, but the traditions of self-government in the city are much older. Drohobych received the Magdeburg right in 1460, and then the first wooden town hall was built. By 1829, this building was very old and unusable, so a new town hall was built in the Austrian style - this time of stone. The need for a new building arose after the First World War. I. Semkovich and M. Nikodymovych became the architects of the project. The three-storey house is surrounded by a small courtyard. The main room is a marble meeting room. The building houses the Museum of Libra, which has more than 500 exhibits. There is also the Tourist Information Center of Drohobych, which, in particular, organizes tours of the town hall tower, which allows you to see the clock mechanism and see the best panorama of the city.

Zhovkva Town Hall in the Neo-Renaissance style is part of the Market Square ensemble. The first town hall in Zhovkva was built by architect P. Beber in 1687. On its walls were placed a sundial and a sample of arshin. The old house was dismantled in 1832 due to an emergency, and for a century the magistrate sat in the castle. The current town hall was built in 1932. It was built according to the competition project of architect B. Victor on the site of former barracks and casemates. In the pre-war period, the city trumpet player sang the melody "geynal" from the clock tower at noon. Now at noon the bells of the clock perform a passage of the anthem of Ukraine. The tower houses the historical and local lore exposition "Zhovkva Tower Museum" with access to the observation deck.

The museum of the Truskavets resort is located in the center of the resort at the villa "Sariush", which is an architectural monument of the early twentieth century. In 7 halls historical documents are exhibited, as well as household items of the Carpathian foothills, which give an idea of the history of the region from ancient times to the present day.

Tustan Fortress City is an ancient Russian rock defense complex that served as a border fortress and customs point (the name is interpreted as an order to the traveler: "Tu stan!"). Also known as "Dovbush Rock". The first fortifications on the rock Kamin near the present village of Urich were built by white Croats in the ninth century. Wooden structures were inscribed directly into the rock massif (grooves and cuttings in the rock have been preserved, which were reconstructed). Tustan Fortress was an important stronghold of Kievan Rus, later the Galicia-Volyn principality. In 1241 it was destroyed by the hordes of Khan Batu, and in 1340 it was captured and rebuilt by the Polish King Casimir the Great as a royal fortress. Through it, salt was exported to Transcarpathia and Hungary, which was extracted in Drohobych and its environs. The last owner in the XVI century. was a Polish magnate Blitzynsky, after which the fortress lost its significance and disappeared from chronicles. Remains of a stone wall, caves, stairs, a well and two water cisterns have been preserved. In 1994, the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" was established, there is a museum.

The Museum of the History of Tustan is located in the center of Urich, near the turn to the rock fortress Tustan, near the Church of St. Nicholas and the People's House "Enlightenment". The museum was established in 1997 to store and exhibit archaeological finds made on the territory of the ancient Russian settlement. Also presented are paintings and schemes of the artist and archaeologist Mykhailo Rozhko, a model of the fortress city and the reconstruction of the voivode's chambers. Model "Tustan - the fifth construction period", which reproduces all three rocks of Tustan (Stone, Sharp Stone and Small Rock), multi-storey wooden structure of the fortress, walls and towers. A separate model demonstrates how the mechanism of the entrance gate is arranged.

The Uhniv Museum of History and Local Lore opened in 2006 at the Uhniv Agricultural and Construction Lyceum on the initiative of teacher G. Gubeni. The exposition of the museum gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the history of the city, life, traditions and legends, to get acquainted with prominent people who were born and lived in the city of Uhniv. All exhibits are authentic and unique: Ugnov clothes, images, millstones, household items of Ugnov residents, historical documents. In particular, the famous boots- "angry" on which I. Franko came to the city are presented.

The Verkhovyna Museum of Local Lore in Stryi is located in the former house of the Stryi lawyer and public and political figure Yevhen Olesnytsky (built in 1899), which was a center of Ukrainian culture and public life in the early twentieth century. The funds number 26,000 storage units. The exposition consists of three departments: nature, ethnography, history of the region. The most valuable exhibits: ancient books, icons, Boyko and Hutsul Easter eggs, as well as weapons of the Cossacks and Opryshki. A separate exposition is dedicated to the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.