Attractions of Lviv district

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.

Peremyshlyany Museum of History and Local Lore is a branch of the Lviv Historical Museum. The museum is housed in an old Art Nouveau building located in the center of Peremyshlyany. An exposition about the nature of Peremyshlyany, the history of Peremyshlyany and the whole region is presented.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 Vynnyky Museum of History and Local Lore opened in 1991 in the former mansion of Dr. J. Naglyak (1935). The exposition is located in three halls. The archeological collection presents objects of life of primitive hunters, finds of the Trypillia period, a unique treasure of the Hallstatt-Latin era and a mysterious stone statue. The expositions of the departments "History of the Middle Ages" and "Modern History" tell about the origin and development of Vynnyky. In particular, items from Vynnyky Castle and the first tobacco factory in Galicia, a collection of ancient printed publications of the XVII-XIX centuries, personal belongings of the famous opera singer O. Lyubich-Parakhonyak, UPR ministers I. Lypa and I. Ogienko.