Attractions of Lviv

The museum-cultural complex of the history of brewing "Lviv Brewery" was opened in Lviv in 2016 on the territory of "Lviv Brewery", which is considered the oldest in Ukraine. The first written mention of Lviv beer dates back to 1384, when a certain Hanko Kleper bought a brewery in the Krakow suburbs, which is still called Kleparov. The official date of opening of "Lviv Brewery" is considered to be 1715. The first brewing museum was opened at the brewery in 2005. After reconstruction, it became a modern art center "Lviv". In the beer museum you can get acquainted with the ancient technology of production. A brewing oven, fermentation vat, beer kegs, etc. are presented. Interesting collections of beer barrels and bottles, beer mugs, samples of advertising, technology book and other unique documents. A special exhibit is the legendary 10-liter glass of the brewery's shareholder Robert Doms. Thanks to the interactive exhibits of the museum, every visitor can feel like a real brewer, touch the history of beer and look into the brewing process. At the end of the tour there is a tasting of 12 types of keg beer in the restaurant "Robert Doms' Drunken House", located in the former beer cellars. There is a souvenir shop. Lvivarnya also functions as a modern art center, where exhibitions, concerts, cultural events, conferences and corporate events take place.

The Museum of the History of Ukraine of the Lviv Historical Museum is housed in a four-story building on Rynok Square in Lviv, known as the "Massarivska Kamyanytsia" (Massari House). Built in the XV century in the Gothic style, later rebuilt in the style of the Renaissance. For some time the house belonged to the family of the Venetian consul Antonio Massari. In the middle of the XIX century there was a delicacy shop Henneman. At the beginning of the XX century the facade was decorated with a triangular pediment, decorated with an allegorical relief by the sculptor Kurchynsky. Late Gothic vaults and windows on the first floor, elements of Renaissance interior decoration have been preserved.

Now in "Massarivska kamyanitsa" there is a historical exposition, which presents more than 2100 monuments of Ukrainian history from ancient times to the early twentieth century: Neolithic instruments and musical instruments, Trypillia ceramics, golden Scythian treasure, ancient Russian crosses, encolpions, medieval swords of Katowice. Lviv, magnate women's and men's clothing, Cossack weapons, astronomical table clock of the XVIII century, collections of old prints and paintings. The portrait of young Roksolana, a girl Nastya Lisovska from Rohatyn, a Turkish prisoner who became the wife of Sultan Suleiman II, is still a secret.

The Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror" was opened in Lviv on the territory of the №25 prison. The prison was established in 1944 by the Soviet occupation administration, which replaced the Nazi one. During the war, the Lviv ghetto was located here. The museum complex has two barracks, watchtowers, barbed wire fence and other infrastructure facilities. The museum tells the story of political, social, ethnic and religious repressions of totalitarian regimes against the population living in Ukraine.

The Boim Chapel near the walls of the Latin Cathedral is one of the most remarkable architectural monuments of Lviv. The chapel was built at the beginning of the 17th century above the family crypt of the Lviv patricians Boimov (next to the cathedral there was a city cemetery). Probably, the construction was carried out by the artel of architect A. Bemer. This building in the style of the mature Renaissance with the transition to the Baroque, experts call a shining example of southern Mannerism in Ukraine. The western facade of the chapel impresses with the richness of decorative decoration. The author of the sculptural composition is considered to be a master from Wroclaw G. Scholz. The dome is crowned by an unusual sculpture of Christ sitting. The interior is also full of many sculptural images, most of which were made by I. Pfister. Currently, the Boim Chapel is a department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

The Museum of Ethnography and Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine occupies a Neo-Renaissance building on the main street of the city. At the base of the dome is an allegorical sculptural group symbolizing the economic prosperity of Galicia, which is called the world's only sitting Statue of Liberty. The exposition presents a rich collection of ceramics, porcelain and earthenware, art glass products. Collection of watches of the XVI-XX centuries. has about 350 copies.

The Sheptytsky Museum of Folk Architecture and Life "Shevchenkivsky Gai" is located on wooded hills in the eastern part of Lviv, behind the High Castle. It is divided into six ethnographic zones, representing the life of different nationalities of Western Ukraine: Boyko, Lemko, Hutsul, Bukovina, Podolsk, Volyn. There are more than 120 architectural monuments from the western regions: 6 churches, houses, a smithy, a school, a sawmill, a loom, a water mill and a windmill. The oldest exhibit is a peasant house from 1749.

A new exhibition of contemporary art of the Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Gallery of Arts opened in 2021 in a modern two-storey office building made of silicate brick, erected in Soviet times behind the Potocki Palace. A retrospective of Lviv art from early modern experiments to examples of the aesthetics of late structuralism is unfolded in the seven halls of the museum.

The exhibition hall of historical avant-garde and high modernism of 1914-1939 begins the exposition. The next section illustrates the existential sensitivity of postwar society and the state of social alienation of Lviv intellectuals in the days of totalitarian pressure of 1939-1953, in particular the work of Karl Zvirynsky and the artists of his "hermetic circle". The following are the works of artists of 1960-1970: Yevhen Lysyk, Lubomyr Medvid, Ivan Ostafiychuk, Roman Zhuk, Roman Petruk, whose works trace the influences of European trends: Dadaism, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism, as well as the large-scale phenomenon of the "Lviv neo-avant-garde". The last halls exhibit the works of the final phase of modern aesthetics and visualize the transitional period between Lviv modernism and postmodernism. The works of Myroslav Yagoda, Roman Zhuk, Rostyslav Lakh, and Andriy Sagaidakovsky reveal the phenomenon of anti-social alienation, close to the Western definition of "trans-avant-garde."

The Museum of Sacred Art of the Lviv Archdiocese named after Father Anton Petrushevych Curia of the Lviv Archdiocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was opened in 2008 in the restored Church of St. Clement Sheptytsky. An exposition of monuments of icon-painting art collected by student monks after the legalization of the UGCC is presented.

The fire and technical exhibition of the Ministry of Emergencies was opened in the building of the Fire Safety Department in Lviv region. The first hall reflects the history of fire development in Galicia and, in particular, in Lviv. Among the exhibits is an Austrian-made pump from 1849. The second hall is dedicated to the everyday life of firefighters. The exposition concludes with a hall dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster.

Museum of the Almanac "Mermaid of the Dniester" - a branch of the Lviv Art Gallery. Located in the architectural monument of the XVIII century. - bell towers of the Holy Spirit Church. In 1939, the church itself was destroyed by a German bomb, leaving only a bell tower with a Baroque finish, which houses a unique clock, donated in the XVII century by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky Manyavsky monastery and later transported and installed on the Holy Spirit bell tower. The exhibits of the museum cover the public, research, literary and publishing activities of the founders of the "Russian Trinity" circle M. Shashkevych, I. Vahylevych and J. Holovatsky, who since 1873 published the Western Ukrainian literary almanac "Mermaid of the Dniester" in the vernacular Ukrainian language.

The Mykhailo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum in Lviv was founded in 1998 in a mansion where he lived with his family in 1902-14. At that time, Hrushevsky was a professor at Lviv University, and immediately initiated the creation of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party. The main exposition of the museum is dedicated to the Lviv period in Hrushevsky's life. The originals of his publications, photographs, letters of the scientist, personal belongings of the Hrushevsky family are presented. Hrushevsky's activity as the head of the Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic is also covered.

A memorial to the victims of the occupation regimes "Lontsky Prison" was unveiled in the building, which has been occupied by punitive authorities for 85 years. The complex at the intersection of modern Bandera and Copernicus streets was built in the late nineteenth century. for the Austrian gendarmerie. Later, the building housed the prisons of the Polish, German and Soviet authorities. In 1941, the largest number of political prisoners in Western Ukraine, 1,645, was exterminated here. During the German occupation, the building housed the Gestapo remand prison. After World War II, it was used by Soviet punitive and repressive authorities to hold captive insurgents. After the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, the SBU pre-trial detention center was located here. The museum complex was opened by the Center for Liberation Movement Studies and the Security Service of Ukraine. The authentic atmosphere of the prison is recreated. The complex includes a solitary cell, a suicide cell, an investigator's office. Declassified "shooting lists" are presented, as well as the archives of one of the most famous prisoners - Father Mykola Khmilevsky, head of the underground Greek Catholic Church and a member of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council. Excursions are by appointment.

The Oleksa Novakivsky Art Memorial Museum is located in the house where the famous Ukrainian painter has lived since 1913. The exquisite red-brick villa, built in the late 19th century in the neo-Romanesque style by the famous Lviv architect Yulian Zakharevych, was once known as the palace of the Polish artist Jan Styka. In 1907 it was bought by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky for the needs of the church museum. With the assistance of the Metropolitan in 1923-1935, the Oleksa Novakivsky Art School operated here - the first art school for young people in Western Ukraine, which became the leading center of artistic life in Lviv. The artist's creative studio was located on the second floor of the house, and his family lived next door in five rooms. Since 1972, an art-memorial museum has been set up in these premises, covering the main stages of the artist's creative path. The Oleksa Novakivsky Museum is a branch of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

The Olena Kulchytska Art Memorial Museum was opened in 1971 in the artist's former apartment in Lviv, on the third floor of a residential building of the late 19th century. According to the artist's will, all her creative heritage, apartments and personal belongings were donated to the Ukrainian people. The exposition in four rooms reveals the artist's work in various genres and types of fine and applied arts. And also presents her as an innovator and creator of modern expression in Ukrainian art culture. The best-preserved interior of the apartment reproduces the artist’s aesthetic preferences for the decoration of urban housing in the context of Ukrainian folk tradition and its creative interpretation. The Olena Kulchytska Museum is a branch of the National Museum in Lviv named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

The three-storey townhouse at the corner of Rynok Square and Stavropigiyska Street is one of the oldest buildings in the central part of Lviv. Built in the style of the late Renaissance in 1593. It was in this house that the wealthy Florentine merchant Roberto Bandinelli in 1629 opened the first post office in Lviv. Later the owners were local Armenians, Austrians and Poles.

Now "Palazzo Bandinelli" is a department of the Lviv Historical Museum, which recreates the residential interiors typical of the life of wealthy Lviv residents of the XVII-XVIII centuries. For the attention of visitors - a hall for ceremonial receptions, and also enfilades of rooms: a drawing room, a gallery of a front portrait, an office, a dining room, etc. The rooms exhibit samples of handmade furniture, porcelain and earthenware from Europe, China and Japan, a collection of silverware, paintings. The decoration of the collection is woven wallpaper, made to order by King Louis XVI of France. Of great interest is the interior of the kitchen, where samples of antique metal utensils are collected.

Earlier, the Palazzo Bandinelli housed the Royal Mail Museum, which told about the development of the postal service in Galicia, the construction of postal tracts, the opening of post offices with hotels, the emergence of stagecoaches and postmen.