Attractions of Lviv

The most luxurious palace in Lviv was created for the influential Polish magnates Potocki according to the project of the union of Lviv architects Ludwig Baldwin-Ramult, Juliusz Cibulski, Petro Harasymovych and Leonard Marconi. The customer was Count Alfred II Joseph Potocki, his son Roman Potocki was completing the construction. The historicist-style palace is modeled on the entre cour et jardin residences of King Louis XIV of the Baroque Classicist era, when clear planning combined with rich exterior design. Interiors in the style of King Louis XVI have been preserved. In particular, on the ground floor there are ceremonial halls for the reception of guests, in the design of which stucco, gilding, colored marble, painting are widely used. In Soviet times, the Palace of Marriages was located here.

In 2007, the Potocki Palace opened the Museum of European Art of the XIV-XVIII centuries – a department of the Lviv National Gallery of Arts. Borys Voznytsky. On the second floor there is one of the richest collections of European art in Ukraine, including "Catching Corals and Pearls" by Jacopo Tsucchi, "Payment" by Georges de la Tour, "Portrait of a Young Patrician" by Sophonisba Angichola, "Allegory of Divine Mercy" by an unknown German artist, "The Visit of Mary Elizabeth" by Jan van Skorel, sketches of monumental paintings by Paul Troger, Josef Winterhalter, Anton Franz Maulberch and others.

A park of miniature castles has been opened in the courtyard of the Potocki Palace. Architect Ihor Kachor created 1:50 scale models of 8 fortifications that exist now or existed earlier in the historical territories of Ukraine-Russia.

The first museum of retro motorcycles was opened in Lviv by collector O. Boyko and his friends from the ZAZ-Kozak club. The exposition presents 50 rare motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, motorcycles of the postwar period. Among them are not only Java, Minsk, Voskhod, Izh, Dnipro and other Soviet-made machines, but also Italian, Polish, German and French brands. All models have been restored, half of them are still in progress. The oldest exhibit is a military motorcycle trailer made in Switzerland in 1944. Based on the Dnipro K650 motorcycle, Lviv restorers created an ambulance motorcycle. You can also see the classic "wheelchair" motorcycle patrol service of the Soviet era.

The interactive museum "D.S. Secret Pharmacy" in Lviv is a magical and mysterious place. The history of this museum began in May 2012, when in one of the oldest Lviv pharmacies "Under the Hungarian Crown" during construction and restoration work was found a secret entrance to the basement, which found a former pharmaceutical laboratory, which operated in the late XIX - early XX centuries . The name of the pharmacy is associated with the legend of the nearby Bernardine Monastery, where for some time were the relics of St. Stephen - King and Patron of Hungary. "Secret Pharmacist" still cooks "soap for bribers" and produces "pills for happiness". The main secret of the pharmacy is guarded by the world's only apothecary Lion. Visitors discover the history of the "Secret Pharmacy" in a light format video tour with elements of theatrical performance and tasting of the "pharmacy elixir of happiness and longevity."

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.