Lutsk

In the 17th century, the Church of the Ascension of the Cross was part of the complex of buildings of the Lutsk Brotherhood of the Ascension of the Cross, which included a monastery, a hospital and a school.

The Lutsk brotherhood was founded by a group of Volyn noblemen, among whom was the celebrated Ukrainian patroness Halshka Hulevychivna, the founder of the Kyiv brotherhood. The Church of the Ascension of the Cross, built on a donation by a patron, has a pronounced defensive character. In its current form, the temple was rebuilt after the fire of 1888.

Crypts were preserved under the altar of the church, in which brothers, famous noblemen, public, cultural and state figures were buried. Danylo Bratkovskyi, Halshka Hulevychivna, and Lavrentiy Drevinskyi are buried here.

The dungeons are open for visitors. A museum of the history of the Lutsk brotherhood has been opened in the premises of the monastery.

The Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lutsk is one of the most valuable architectural monuments of the city, which is one of the most important Catholic shrines in Volyn.

It was built in the 17th century at the same time as the Jesuit monastery, designed by architects Dzhakomo Briano and Benedetto Molli. The nearby bell tower has been preserved since the 16th century, when the Catholic bishopric was founded in Lutsk and the first Latin cathedral appeared, which has not survived to this day.

The interior is lavishly decorated with moldings, sculptures, pilasters, as well as paintings by many artists: Mykola Klymkovych, Pavlo Vyshynskyi, Tadeush Konych (Kuntse), Yan Prekhtl, Vilyani, Frantsysk Smuhlevych, Voytsekh Herson and others.

In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the largest religious school in Volyn operated at the monastery. Currently, the building of the Jesuit monastery houses a technical school of food technology.

Peter and Paul Church is the cathedral of the Lutsk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine.

There are three-level dungeons under the building (entrance to the right of the cathedral, tours are available).

The Korsaks Museum of Ukrainian Modern Art (KMUMA) was opened in 2018 by Volyn businessman and philanthropist Viktor Korsak.

The 3,000-square-meter museum exposition is located on three floors of the Adrenaline City Cultural and Entertainment Center on the northeastern outskirts of Lutsk.

It is the largest museum of contemporary national art in Ukraine, which presents paintings, graphics, sculptures, video art, installations and other works by more than 100 leading Ukrainian artists from the early twentieth century to the present. In total, more than 800 art objects are presented in several exhibition halls.

The pearl of the collection is the early work of the founder of cubism in sculpture, the world-famous Ukrainian sculptor Oleksandr Arkhypenko "Naked" (1907), which became the prototype of many future works of the artist. The museum is also proud of the works of the luminaries of Lviv modernism: Olena Kulchytska, Roman Selsky, Leopold Levytsky and Yaroslava Muzyka.

Nonconformism of the Soviet times is represented by three schools: north-western - Lviv, Transcarpathia; central and eastern - Kyiv, Kharkiv; southern - Odesa. In particular, the works of Mykola Malyshko, Petro Honchar and others are exhibited. Postmodernism is represented by the works of Vlodko Kaufman, Yuriy Izdryk, Petro Bevza, Petro Antyp and others.

The structural subdivision of KMUMA is the Mykola Kumanovsky Art Memorial Museum, where the artist's memorial items are presented: etching machine, brushes, spatula, old easel, on which is his last unfinished canvas.

The museum also has a variable exposition, which presents the work of the best domestic and foreign artists. Nearby is the street gallery "Polychrome A", which is a platform for the development of modern urban art.

A 19th-century building in the center of Lutsk, next to Lubart's Castle, where the Kosach literary family lived in 1890-1891.

This was the last period of her stay in the city of Lesya Ukrayinka, who was already seriously ill at that time. The office apartment of Petro Kosach (Lesya's father) was located on the second floor.

In 2007, the Lesyna Living Room Museum was opened here. You can get to the museum by prior arrangement with the administration.

Here is the office of the Historical and Cultural Reserve "Old Town".

Lutsk Castle of Prince Lubart is one of the most powerful fortresses in Volyn, a business card of Lutsk.

The upper castle existed on top of the hill since the time of the Ryurykovychi.

In its present form, a typical European medieval feudal castle was built in 1340-1385 by the Lithuanian-Rus prince Lubart. It became the residence of the Volyn princes, and for some time - the capital of the Galicia-Volyn state. Fortified in 1430-1542 during the reign of Prince Svydryhaylo.

The Lutsk Castle complex includes the Entrance, Styrova and Vladycha Towers, surrounded by walls. Inside are the noble and episcopal houses. The foundations and dungeons of the Cathedral of Saint John the Theologian of the 12th century, in which Prince Lubart and many other Volyn rulers were buried, have been preserved.

Several museums have been opened on the territory of Lutsk Castle: paintings, bells, building ceramics, printing, weapons. The castle is constantly being restored, archeological excavations are being carried out on the territory.