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 Church of the Mother of God Help of the Faithful was built in Sudova Vyshnia in 1884-1890. The previous Catholic Church of Saint Michael, founded in 1620, burned down. The new church was built in the Neo-Gothic style.

In Soviet times, the church building was used as a warehouse.

In 1989, the church of the Mother of God Help of the Faithful was returned to the Catholic community of Sudova Vyshnia.

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 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 Museum "Literary L'viv of the Early 20th Century" opened in 1992 in a five-room apartment in a residential building on Heroiv Maidanu Street, 18, built in 1937-1939 according to the project of Zygmunt Sperber in the style of Lviv functionalism. Ukrainian Soviet writer and propagandist Yaroslav Halan lived in this apartment in 1944-1949. Here he was killed as a result of an assassination attempt.

The exposition of the museum reflects controversial political events and social conflicts of the first half of the 20th century, against the background of which the literature of Lviv developed. Furniture, prints, photographs, paintings, postcards, posters of Lviv at that time are presented in the interiors of the city residence.

Ukrainian modernism, "young muses", the poetry of the Sich riflemen, the mutual influence of artists from Galicia and Transnistria, the work of banned and repressed poets and writers, famous Ukrainian names in emigration - this is far from a complete list of topics covered by the museum's exhibition.

The Museum "Literary L'viv of the Early 20th Century" is a department of the Lviv Historical Museum.

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.

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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 and cultural center "Na Unterwaliu" in the village of Pidhaichyky in the Lviv Region opened in 2019. Located on the territory of the former German colony Unterwal, which existed here until 1939.

The complex is dedicated to the life of this multicultural Galician village, in which four nations lived before the Second World War: Ukrainians, Germans, Poles and Jews.

About 150 exhibits are presented in the museum exposition - these are work tools, household items, furniture and old prints. All these things were collected by local residents for three years, while preparations for the creation of the museum continued. The exhibits reflect the life and culture of the village, as well as the daily life of all four nations.

Workshops, meetings, lectures, and film screenings are constantly held in the cultural center.

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 Lviv "Museum of Ideas" is an art gallery, exhibition space and location for artistic events, located in the very heart of Lviv - in the courtyard and basements of the former Bernardine Monastery of the 15th-17th centuries. Founded in 1992 by Lviv artist and gallerist Oles Dzyndra.

Near the entrance to the "Museum of Ideas" there is a kurdoner - a patch of land surrounded on three sides by monastery walls. Permanent projects "Bernarden Garden", "Republic of Rio" and "Temple of Trust" function here.

The museum considers its collection to be a collection of "ideas", i.e. implemented projects in the fields of philosophy, sociology, art, ecology, technology and urban planning. Among them are the festivals "KinoLev", "Lviv - the capital of handicrafts", "SkloKoko", "LeoPoltvis", etc.

The museum does not have a permanent exhibition, but various exhibitions and performances are regularly held in its halls. The project includes a restaurant of Galician cuisine "Trapezna idey" and a shop where you can buy works of art.