Attractions of Lutsk

The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity was built in the 18th century as a church of the Bernardine monastery in the new part of the city, which is now the administrative center of Lutsk.

The project was developed by architect Pavlo Hizhytskyi. Initially, the church had rococo architectural features, but after the Bernardine Order was abolished and the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church, the building was completely rebuilt in the late Baroque style.

The interior decoration of the 19th century with a two-tiered carved and gilded iconostasis made by Ukrainian masters has been preserved in the Holy Trinity Cathedral.

The Art Museum in Lutsk presents an outstanding collection of world and Ukrainian paintings, graphics and sculptures of different eras.

The exhibition is housed in the former building of the county office and noble courts, built in 1789 on the ruins of the princely palace of Lutsk Castle.

The collection of the Lutsk Art Museum was formed in the post-war years on the basis of the collection from the magnate gallery of the Radzyvill princes in the Castle in Olyka. European painting of the 17th and early 20th centuries, particularly from Italy, France, Germany, and Poland, is widely represented.

The pearl of the collection is the painting "Saint Jerome" (1644) - almost the only work in Ukraine by the outstanding Spanish artist of the "Golden Age" Jusepe de Ribera. The Lutsk Art Museum has one of the country's largest collections of Polish paintings (January Suchodolski, Jan Matejko, Józef Brandt and others), the core of which is a gallery of ceremonial portraits of princes Radziwills and other aristocrats of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among them, the portrait of Queen Anna of Austria, the wife of the Polish king Stefan Batory, and the brush of the court artist Martin Kober stand out. Another decoration of the museum's permanent exhibition is "Per procura wedding of Prince Mikolaj "the Black" Radziwill with Catherine of Austria (Gonzaga)" by Ksaveryj Geski.

Among the masterpieces of Ukrainian painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the painting "Storm at Sea" by the outstanding marine painter Ivan Ayvazovsky. The exposition also presents modern Ukrainian painting, the works of Volyn artists.

Zeman Lutsk Brewery was founded in 1888 by the Czech brewer Vatslav Zeman, whose father, Yozef Zeman, moved from the Czech Republic to Kvasyliv in Volyn in 1869.

In 1906, the wooden building of the factory was destroyed by fire, but two years later the brewery was rebuilt in stone. In 1913, the brewery reached its maximum productivity. Four varieties of beer were brewed here: "Stolove", "Sakura", "Pomegranate" and "Bok Beer".

In 1939, after Volyn joined the USSR, the Lutsk Brewery was nationalized. After Ukraine gained independence in 2004, the production of beer under the trademark "Zeman" was established in honor of the founder of the brewery Vatslav Zeman. Currently, 12 types of beer are brewed here.

The Lutsk Zoo is located on the territory of the Lesya Ukrayinka Central Park of Culture and Recreation.

The zoo exhibition consists of 42 species of fauna. In particular, lions, bears, red deer, bison, antelope, llama, porcupine, raccoon dogs, pheasants, peacocks, black swans and others are presented. In total, more than 150 animals and birds live in the Lutsk Zoo.

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

The Volyn Regional Museum of the Ukrainian Army and Military Equipment was established on the initiative of the public organization Dzherela.

The museum is located on the territory of a military town in the center of Lutsk, in the premises built in 1925.

The exposition presents 50 samples of military equipment and weapons. The permanent exhibition "Pages of Military History of the Volyn Region" has been opened.

The building of the old pharmacy was built in Lutsk by the Zlotsky family at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

The pharmacy laboratory used more than 200 species of medicinal plants to prepare medicines, ointments, tinctures and syrups.

In 1920, the extraction of artesian wells and the sale of mineral water were established here.

In 1882, Lesya Ukrayinka often bought medicines here.

"Puzyna House" is the oldest residential building in Lutsk. It was built in 1545-1546. Lutsk bishop Yuriy Falchevsky.

The original two-story building with vaulted ceilings and buttresses, located right next to the entrance to the Lutsk Castle, used to adjoin the wall of the Okolny Castle with its back side.

The building got its name in the 17th century, when Bishop Opanas Puzyna lived in it. The house also belonged to the noble Volyn family of Hulevychs and the Lutsk voivode Andriy Zahorovsky.

At present, "Puzyna House" remains residential - it is occupied by several families.

The Museum of Science, Technology and Industrial Design (Museum of Technical Progress) opened in 2018 in the premises of the Adrenaline City Cultural and Entertainment Center on the northeastern outskirts of Lutsk, next to the Korsaks Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art.

The exposition acquaints visitors with the development of science and technology from the simplest devices of primitive times to the present.

The Museum of Science and Technology has 18 departments: music, architecture and design, light and optical, physico-chemical, military, medical, gaming, history of technological progress, physics and mechanics and others.

The Museum of Industrial Design presents examples of mass production at the intersection of art and technology. In particular, there are collections of watches, cameras, radio equipment, gramophones, tape recorders, telephones, computers. Among the interesting - a section of 3D puzzles from the famous Ukrainian toy manufacturer UGEARS.

All the exhibits can be touched with your hands.

Volyn Museum of Local Lore is the largest and oldest museum in Volyn. Founded in 1929.

It has been housed in the current building in the center of Lutsk since 1985. The funds contain more than 140 thousand exhibits representing nature, history, ethnography, art of the Volyn region.

The museum has a rich collection of natural materials, collections of geological minerals, plants and animals. The museum's collections are presented in the exposition, which consists of sections of nature, ancient and modern history, thematic exhibitions.

The exposition of the museum is located on an area of ​​more than 2 thousand square meters. m in 23 stationary and 9 exhibition halls. It is built on thematic (nature department) and thematic-chronological principles (history department).

The branches and departments of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore are the Kolodyazhne Literary Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrayinka, the Art Museum in Lutsk Castle, the Museum of the Volyn Icon, the Museum of the History of the Lutsk Brotherhood, and the Lypynsky Memorial Museum.

The Museum of Ethnography and Folk Crafts of Volyn is created.