Attractions of Lviv district

Lviv National Gallery of Arts named after Borys Voznytsky is one of the largest art museums in Ukraine. Its funds number more than 62 thousand works of art from different eras. It was founded in 1914 as the Lviv Art Gallery and has since been housed in a house built in 1874, which belonged to the prominent historian and collector Vladislav Lozynsky. Now the administration of the Lviv National Art Gallery and its department "European Art of the XIX-XXI Centuries" are located in the Lozynsky Palace. About 400 works by French, Austrian, German, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian masters are presented in 24 halls. The pearl is considered to be the only work in Ukraine by Georges de la Tour "The moneylender", one of the most expensive and most valuable paintings of world importance in the country. Only 32 paintings of this mysterious European master have survived in the world. There are also several portraits of Arthur Grotger, "Portrait of a Daughter" by Heinrich Rodakowski and others. The art halls of Lviv of 1900-1930 acquaint with the works of artists who were members of the associations ANUM, ARTES, "New Generation".

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 Ustiyanovych family was opened in 1991 in the former house of the priest of the Vvedenskaya Church in Vovkov. It was here in 1839, in the family of the priest Mykola Ustiyanovych, a famous writer and poet, that Kornylo Ustiyanovych was born - a future famous Ukrainian artist and public figure. A separate exposition is dedicated to the work of F. Rzegoż, a Czech ethnographer who is called "the apostle of Slavic unity". An ethnographic exposition has been set up in the wooden granary: folk clothing, tools, spinning wheels, spindles, lamps, utensils, chests, etc.

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 first museum of modern abstract sculpture in Ukraine was created in Bryukhovychi by a prominent Ukrainian artist, modernist sculptor Mykhailo Dzyndra, who lived most of his life in the United States. The development of the project and financing of the construction was undertaken by the artist himself. The basis of the exhibition were sculptures that he brought from America. Among the works of the master exhibited in the museum are spectacular sculptures "Lovers" and "Honeymoon", sculptural portraits of women, "Frightened Soldier" and about 800 other sculptures. The Mykhailo Dzyndra Museum of Modern Sculpture is a department of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

The Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Staraya Skvaryava near Zhovkva is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine, which is accurately dated. According to the inscription on the beam of the south wall, it was built in 1508. The church originally stood on the ancient Russian settlement of Shchekotyn in nearby Hlynsk. In 1715 it was moved to Staraya Skvaryava, when the local church burned down. The iconostasis, one of the best monuments of the Przemyśl school of icon painting, was also moved. Until the XVI century. there are icons of the prayer series, which depict two figures of saints and two gospel stories. The central icon of the series is the "Savior in the Power of Heaven", which depicts the Last Supper. These works belong to the masters of the Przemyśl school of icon painting. The royal gates date back to the middle of the XVII century. Since 2015, the church has housed the museum "Staroskvaryavsky iconostasis of the XVI-XVIII centuries." - a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion.

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.

The museum of the underground headquarters of the UPA of General Roman Shukhevych was opened in 2007 in the village of Grimne, where in 1947 the headquarters of the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was located. There was a secret apartment in the house of the local priest for several days, where Shukhevych was with his immediate entourage. Of these, only the liaison Daria Gusak, who initiated the creation of the museum, survived. A rebel hideout was recently discovered in the basement of the priest's house. Enthusiasts cleared it and restored the interior. Weapons of those times and personal belongings of underground fighters are presented. You can view a collection of documents, photographs and insurgent posters printed here.

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.