Attractions of Lviv region

The pharmacy-museum of the world-famous inventor of industrial oil refining Johann Zeg opened in 2021 in the city park of culture and recreation of Boryslav, is still a leading center of the oil industry of Galicia. Here is one of the largest deposits of ozokerite, ie mountain paraffin, which has medicinal properties.

The exposition of the museum acquaints visitors with the history of Galician pharmaceuticals, experiments on oil distillation, extraction and use of ozokerite, prominent figures of Boryslav and the life of Johann Zeg.

In particular, a model of a distiller is presented - a device for dividing oil into fractions, as well as a collection of pharmacy bars and kerosene lamps of different eras.

The wooden church of John the Baptist in Boryslav was built in 1879.

Previously, the wooden church of the Resurrection, which has been known since the 15th century, stood on this place.

The church is cruciform in plan, one-story, surrounded by a canopy. In the lower part, the original beams of the log house are visible (the rest of the walls are covered with wooden lining). The wooden iconostasis of the 19th century has been preserved in the interior.

There is an old three-tiered wooden bell tower nearby, as well as a new stone one. To the left of the entrance gate is a tall monument to John the Baptist, covered with a roof on columns.

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 Konstantsiya, 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 Lviv Monuments (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, services of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have been held in the Church of John the Baptist every Sunday and on holidays.

The earth ramparts of the bastion-type Komarno castle have been preserved in the city of Komarno at the exit towards Peremozhne.

The castle was founded in the 15th century by the Galician elder Stanislav Khodetskyi. In the 18th century, the castle lost its importance after the owner of Komarno, Antoniy Yuzef Lyantskoronskyi, built a new tycoon's residence nearby.

Now the Komarno Castle is used as a stadium "Gazovik" with a football field in the castle yard and tribunes on ramparts with corner bastions that are clearly visible. Nearby is an old Victorian brick building, which now houses one of the buildings of the city hospital.

The manor-museum of the leader of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, the second head of the OUN, Colonel Andrii Melnyk, was opened in his native village of Volia Yakubova in 2020 on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of his birth.

Andriy Melnyk was born in 1890 in the family of a local priest and public servant Atanas Melnyk, who was friends with the family of Ivan Franko. Franko himself visited the Melnyky residence in Volia Yakubova more than once. This formed the foundations of the national consciousness and patriotism of young Andrii even in his childhood.

The museum was set up in an old house of the beginning of the 20th century, in which Andrii Melnyk's relatives once lived.

One of the rooms in the house has been preserved in an authentic state - with a clay floor. Household items and farm tools used by village craftsmen at that time were collected here. Some of them belonged to relatives of Colonel Melnyk. The exposition in another part of the house is dedicated directly to the life of Andrii  Melnyk and his participation in the national liberation movement.

The Leopold Levytsky Art Memorial Museum was established in the artist's former home in Lviv. Located in a house built in 1891 by Hustav Bizants.

Prominent Ukrainian graphic artist of the twentieth century Leopold Levytsky is considered one of the pioneers of Ukrainian graphic design and advertising. His museum was founded in 1984 on the initiative of the artist's wife Henya Levytska.

The exposition in three rooms highlights the artist's creative achievements in graphics and painting, but also recreates the special environment of the Lviv intelligentsia in which he lived and worked.

The Leopold Levytsky Museum is a branch of the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

The Lviv Academic Theater named after Les Kurbas is located in the building of the former Casino de Paris, built in 1909 according to the project of architects Zygmunt Fedorsky and Stanislav Matsudzinsky.

Between the First and Second World Wars, this building housed a cinema, during Soviet times it belonged to the House of Folk Art.

The Les Kurbas Theater was founded in this building by Volodymyr Kuchynskyi and a group of young actors in 1988. His repertoire is distinguished by highly intellectual stage adaptations of the works of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Platon, and Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and others.

The Literary Museum of Les Martovych was opened in 1974 in the village of Monastyrok, where this outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure spent the last years of his life.

Materials for the exposition were collected by activists of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. These are mostly books of different years and other printed materials. Lviv artist Volodymyr Patyk presented the museum with a portrait of Martovych painted especially for him.

Since 2008, the Martovych Museum in Monastyrok has not been functioning. An initiative group on the restoration of the museum was created and is working.

Limpopo Zoo in Medenychi is the largest zoo in Lviv region.

It contains more than 300 animals representing hundreds of different species of world fauna. The territory of the zoo is more than 3 hectares.

There is a cafe and a summer yard on the territory of the zoo.

The Literary and Art Museum of Ukrainian writers Ulyana Kravchenko and Mykola Ustiyanovych was founded in 1991 in their hometown of Mykolaiv, Lviv region.

The exhibition tells about the life and work of these artists, introduces photos from family archives and some personal belongings. In particular, the first collection of Ulyana Kravchenko's poems "Prima Vera", her other works, authentic items of clothing, paintings, busts of Ivan Franko and Ulyana Kravchenko are presented.

Visitors can also get acquainted with the lives and stories of other famous people of the Mykolaiv region - artists, artists, composers, sculptors, singers.

The Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna" is located in the former house of the Stryi lawyer and public-politician Yevhen Olesnytsky (built in 1899), which at the beginning of the 20th century was a center of Ukrainian culture and public life.

The museum's funds include 26,000 storage units. The exhibition consists of three sections: nature, ethnography, and history of the region.

The history section informs about the oldest settlements on the territory of the region, the history of medieval Stryi, the Opryshky movement. Covers the history of Stryshchyna during the period of Austrian occupation, the events of the First World War, the struggle of the locals for the Ukrainian state.

The most valuable exhibits: ancient books, icons, Boykiv and Hutsul Easter eggs, as well as Cossack and Opryshky weapons. A separate exposition is devoted to the activities of the UPA.

The Verkhovyna Museum of Local Lore includes:
- Memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine";
- Bandera family Memorial Museum-Manor;
- Olha Bachynska Memorial Museum;
- Artist Petro Obal Museum.

The current premises of the library named after Les Martovych in Horodok used to be the house of Horodok lawyer Lonhyn Ozarkevych.

In 1899-1903, prominent Ukrainian writer Les Martovych lived here, who worked at Ozarkevych's law office at that time. Born in Pokuttya, Les Martovych is considered a classic of Ukrainian satire and humor. His creativity was honed precisely in Horodok. Ivan Franko and Vasyl Stefanyk visited him here.

A commemorative plaque was installed. The creation of a Martovych museum is planned.

The Museum "Lord Homestead of the 19th Century" is being created by the Lviv Regional Museum of History and Local Lore on the basis of the Bartmanskyi Palace in Zhuravnyky.

The palace in the style of classicism was built in the second half of the 19th century by the famous Galician politician and statesman, the vice president of Lviv, Oswald Bartmanskyi, who lived here with his wife Severyna Tustanovska. Later, the estate was rented by tenants. Later, the manor estate became the property of the community, a school was opened in it, which also operated during the Soviet regime.

Now the restoration of the palace is underway. It is planned to fully recreate the traditional interior and exterior of the manor house of that era and the landscaped park on the shore of the pond.

The Church of the Resurrection of the Lord in Zolochiv was built in 1624-1627 by Yakiv Sobesky, the father of King Yan III Sobesky, as a parish Catholic church.

In 1838, as a result of the agreement with the Roman Catholic parish, the church was transferred to the Greek Catholic community of Zolochiv.

Built in the Renaissance style, the Church of the Resurrection is characterized by simplicity of form.

Today it is an active Orthodox church.

The Greek-Catholic Church of the Resurrection was built in Zhydachiv in 1900 on the site of the burned-down wooden Church of the Resurrection. Consecrated in 1901.

During the Soviet rule, the church was taken over by the Russian Orthodox Church, but remained in use, thanks to which the luxurious iconostasis (1912) and interior painting were preserved.

Since 1990, the Resurrection Church again belongs to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The miraculous icon of the Mother of God "Zhydachiv Oranta" is kept here.