Attractions of Sambir

The Les Kurbas Memorial Museum in Sambor was opened in 1993 in the building where the future actor and director was born in 1887. Kurbas was the founder of the National Western Ukrainian Theater School and the creator of the famous theater-academy "Berezil". The museum's collection includes 5,594 items: a bust of L. Kurbas by the sculptor M. Posikira, a bas-relief board by the sculptor E. Mysko, paintings by M. Yaremkiv, S. Muryash, L. Frintsko and others. Selections of theatrical photographs, embroidered napkins, etc. are presented.

The first museum of the Boykivshchyna Society in Sambir was organized in 1927 and is dedicated to the history and culture of the natives of the Boykiv region, whose informal capital is considered to be Sambir. In Soviet times, the museum was closed. It was restored in 1990 as the Boykivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum. Located in the former building of the parish school, built in 1679 on the foundations of the sixteenth century. Permanent exhibitions: "Material and economic culture of the Boyks", "The Kozakevich Family" (one of the oldest Sambir families), "The struggle for Ukrainian statehood in the Sambir and Boykiv regions". There are master classes on painting Easter eggs.