Attractions of Lviv region

The monument to the heroes of the UPA in Slavsko was erected on the grave of the fallen soldiers of the UPA and victims of the repressions of 1940-1950.

It is located next to the Church of the Assumption.

The names of those who died for the freedom of Ukraine are engraved on the monument.

The "Ancient Lviv" museum opened in 2020 in the dungeons of the Transfiguration Church in the center of Lviv, near Rynok Square.

This is the second institution of a large project of innovative museums under the brand "Formation of the Ukrainian Nation", which combines modern exhibition technologies, realistic 3-D figures of prominent Ukrainians and exhibits from private collections and museum funds.

The Lviv museum presents 40 figures of notable figures who had an impact on the development of the city from 1256 to 1722. Among them are King Danylo Halytsky, Prince Vasylko Romanovych, King Casimir III, sculptor Ivan Heorhiy Pinzel, founder of the first Viennese coffee houses Yuriy Kulchytsky and many others.

Classical and thematic excursions, children's quests, master classes on decorating weapons, weaving chain mail, pottery, making a motanka doll, painting with coffee, and medieval dances are held.

Tickets can be purchased online in advance.

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 over the family crypt of the Lviv patricians Boim (the city cemetery was located next to the cathedral). Presumably, the construction was carried out by the team of architect Andriy Bemer.

Experts call this building in the style of the mature Renaissance with a transition to Baroque a vivid example of southern mannerism in Ukraine. The western facade of the chapel impresses with the wealth of decorative decoration. The author of the sculptural composition is considered to be the master from Wroclaw, Hanush Sholts. The dome is crowned by an unusual sculpture of a seated Christ. The interior is also filled with many sculptural images, most of which are by Yan Pfister.

Currently, the Boim Chapel is a department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

The very ancient church of John the Baptist is one of the few buildings preserved in Lviv from princely times. It is located in the Old Market (Stary rynok) area at the foot of the High Castle (Vysoky zamok).

According to legend, the Hungarian princess Constantia, the wife of Galicia-Volyn prince Lev Danylovych, king of Rus, is buried here.

The first written mention of the Church of John the Baptist in Lviv dates back to 1371. The building was rebuilt in the 19th century in the pseudo-Romanesque style, but some fragments of the original architecture have survived to this day.

Currently, the premises are occupied by the Museum of the Oldest Monuments of Lviv (a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery). The exhibition tells about culture, crafts and life in the times that belong to the founding of the city. The most valuable exhibit is the "Lviv Mother of God" icon (XIV century). A plastic panorama of Lviv from the 18th century is also exhibited.

Since 2009, UGCC services have been held in the church every Sunday and on holidays.

The interactive museum of traditional medicine "Grandfather's Pharmacy" was opened in 2018 in the village of Myrtiuky on the Stryi bypass.

This is the second museum of the "Grandfather's Pharmacy" network dedicated to the history of folk medicine.

The exposition presents healing herbs, fruits, roots and tinctures from them, with which local residents were treated in ancient times. The excursion begins with the herbal room (museum-pharmacy storeroom), where visitors are told about the history of medicine in the Boikivshchyna, the healing properties of local herbs and the preventive properties of herbal teas.

In the second room, visitors can learn about the use of special tinctures with fly agaric mushrooms, snakes and bees in traditional medicine for the prevention and treatment of serious diseases.

"Grandfather's Pharmacy" also offers tastings of herbal, fruit, berry and root tinctures, aromatic Boykos teas, and berry syrups for children. The same products can be purchased in the museum shop.

The first museum "Grandfather's Pharmacy" operates in Kryvorivnia near Verkhovyna.

The center of local history "Khata in Hlyboky" (House in Hlyboky) of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Tustan" opened in 2013 as a rural cultural and public center.

It is located in one of several dozen authentic Boyko houses of the early XX century, preserved in the village of Urych. The house-museum presents a modern ethnographic exhibition "Unnecessary? The story of Urych in objects and images", which presents old photos, household items, memories of the villagers.

The exposition uses modern technologies of material presentation with the use of multimedia means.

The Museum "Kryivka of the UPA Underground Printery" was opened in 2014 on the territory of the Basivka Arboretum, north of the Basivka village near Lviv. In 1955, the last battle between a group of local rebels and a KGB special forces unit took place at this place.

During the liberation struggle against the Soviet occupation, UPA fighters created an underground printery here. The kryivka (hideout) is recreated in its original form according to the memories of eyewitnesses. The underground bunker consists of three rooms connected by a 30-meter long tunnel.

The exposition presents improvised furniture, khagants, an oven, typewriters, household items of the rebels, photographs, originals and copies of documents. A mini-chapel has also been recreated, one of the exhibits of which is the "Prayer Book of the Ukrainian People" (1947).

The Church of Saint Archangel Michael in Stara Skvariava near Zhovkva is one of the oldest wooden churches in Ukraine that have an accurate dating.

According to the inscription on the timber of the southern wall, the temple was built in 1508. The church originally stood on the ancient Rus settlement Shchekotyn in nearby Hlynsk. In 1715, it was moved to Stara Skvariava, when the local church burned down.

The iconostasis was also moved - one of the best monuments of the Peremyshl school of icon painting. The icons of the prayer row, which depict two figures of saints and two evangelical subjects, belong to the 16th century. The central icon of the series is "Salvation in the Powers of Heaven", under which the "Last Supper" is depicted. These works belong to the masters of the Peremyshl school of icon painting. The royal gates date back to the middle of the 17th century.

Since 2015, the museum "Starokvariavsky iconostasis of the XVI-XVIII centuries" has been operating in the church - a branch of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion.

Information on accessibility: available ramp.

The Museum "Unconquered" in Stryi opened in 2022 during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The exposition of the museum consisted of war trophies of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which were brought by fighters of the "Karpatska Sich" battalion.

In the museum, you can see various types of weapons, equipment of the Ukrainian military, as well as clothing and protection of the occupiers, many photos and "unpacking" of the Russian dry ration.

The Museum of Folk Life is organized by a local priest, the collection is exhibited in the premises of the architectural monument - the wooden bell tower of the Saint Michael's Church (1730).

The three-tiered belfry is considered a monument of Hutsul wooden architecture.

Various tools, dishes, looms, folk clothes, furniture are presented in the museum. On the second floor - an exhibition of icons and embroidered banners.

Excursions are conducted by the priest of the nearby Saint Michael's Church (1902).

The Museum of Computer Technology in Lviv is located in the basement of the Scientific Library of Ivan Franko Lviv National University.

The interactive exhibition is devoted to the history of computers and video games of the 1980s and 1990s. More than a hundred devices are presented, most of which are in working condition.

In particular, you can see the technology of the USA (Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM), the UK (Acorn, Sinclair, Tangerine Computer Systems), the countries of the former Eastern Bloc ("Pravets", Mera, Robotron), the USSR ("Elektronika BK") and of Ukraine (PK-01 "Lviv", "Search", "Orel" BK08).

The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life named after Klymentii Sheptytskyi in Lviv is also known as "Shevchenkivsky Grove", Lviv Skansen or open-air museum. It is located on the wooded hills of the "Znesinnia" Regional Landscape Park in the eastern part of Lviv, behind the Vysoky Zamok.

The open-air museum in Lviv was founded in 1971, although the exhibition began to take shape in the interwar period at the initiative of Lviv art critic Mykhailo Dragan and Archimandrite Klymentii Sheptytskyi. The first exhibit was the wooden church of St. Nicholas of 1761, which was transported from the village of Kryvka.

Currently, the exposition of the open-air museum includes more than 110 architectural monuments from all western regions of Ukraine: 6 churches, residential buildings, a forge, a school, a sawmill, a cloth mill, a water mill and a windmill. The museum has the largest collection of sacred buildings in Europe.

The exposition is divided into six ethnographic zones, representing the daily life of residents of various Western Ukrainian regions: Boikivshchyna, Lemkivshchyna, Hutsulshchyna, Bukovyna, Pokuttia, Podillia, Zakarpattia, Lviv region. Each zone is a mini village with religious, residential and economic buildings. The interiors of most houses are available for viewing, and household items are exhibited in them.

In particular, the central exhibit of the "Hutsulshchyna" zone is a traditional Hutsul grazhda from the village of Kryvorivnia. And the oldest exhibit is a peasant hut from 1749.

Traditional Christmas and Easter celebrations take place in the Museum every year, attracting the attention of a large number of Lviv residents and guests of the city. At individual facilities, you can get acquainted with ancient crafts, including straw weaving, pysankarstvo, and playing folk instruments. Workshops for children and adults are constantly held in the open-air museum.

The Museum of Hetman Petro  Konashevych-Sahaydachny was opened in the village of Kulchytsi, where he was born in 1570 in the family of a local nobleman.

From there, he went to study at the Ostroh Academy, and then applied to the Zaporizhzhian Sich, later becoming one of the most prominent political figures in the history of Ukraine.

In 1992, a monument to Sahaydachny was erected in Kulchytsi.

The Sahaydachny museum was opened in the premises of the former elementary school. The exposition includes about 900 exhibits. Since 1993, on every third Sunday of April, "Sahaydachny Memorial Day" has been held annually near the monument to Petro Sahaydachny.

There is also an exhibition dedicated to another famous native of Kulchytsi - Yuriy Kulchytsky, the hero of the defense of Vienna in 1683 and the owner of the first Viennese coffee house.

In 2010, a monument to Yuriy Kulchytsky was erected in front of the museum.

The interactive museum of interesting science and technology "Eureka" (Evrika) in Lviv is a children's scientific and entertainment complex that introduces visitors to the world of science in an accessible game form.

The interactive exposition covers the main branches of science: physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, astronomy, geology, etc. All exhibits are not only possible, but must be touched, moved, looked at from all sides and checked in practice. In the "Eureka" laboratory, everyone can independently conduct more than two hundred laboratory experiments in physics, chemistry and other scientific fields.

The modern Lviv planetarium of the "Eureka" museum will help you immerse yourself in the world of space discoveries and learn about the causes of the universe, the structure of the constellations, the structure of the solar system, the discovery of the Hubble space telescope and the prospects of research on the newest James Webb orbital telescope.

The virtual reality section will help you meet dinosaurs, become a spectator of the Du Soleil circus or get to a distant country. Science shows are regularly held in "Eureka" hosted by the "crazy professor" Smiley.

In addition to the rich museum exposition, there is a small shop where you can buy educational literature, interesting intellectual games and unusual souvenirs.

The museum-room of the national liberation struggle in the town of Rudky presents historical material about the struggle for Ukrainian statehood in 1918-1919 and in 1930-1940 in the Rudky region.

In the most honorable place is a portrait of the UPA Commander-in-Chief, General Roman Shukhevych.