Attractions of Lviv

The National Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Mariya Zankovetska, which was called the "Galician La Scala", was at one time the largest theater in Lviv.

Built in 1837-1842 at the expense of Count Stanislav Skarbek (the letter "W" of his coat of arms "Abdank" is preserved on the portal). The project of the building in the style of Viennese classicism, about 96 meters long, 76 meters wide and covering an area of ​​more than 7,000 square meters, was developed by architects Lyudvig Pihl and Yohann Salzmann. Three horses could enter under the portal with six Ionic columns. A progressive at that time heating and ventilation system was provided.

Niccolo Paganini, Ferenc Liszt, Sarah Bernard performed on this stage.

In 1923, the tetra was named after Mariya Zankovetska.

The Church of Mary the Snowy in the Stariy Rynok district in Lviv is one of the oldest churches in the city.

Built in the 14th century by German colonists next to the old market square. The church was first mentioned in documents in 1352.

The original appearance of the building was greatly changed by subsequent reconstructions in the 17th and 19th centuries. After the last reconstruction, carried out by the architect Yulian Zakharevych, the church became a single-nave, basilica type, with an elongated altar part, a square vestibule and a square two-story bell tower.

Previously, the interior was decorated with frescoes of 1750-1751 by the artist Stanislav Stroyinsky. In their place in the 19th century, the artist Edvard Lyepshy executed new paintings imitating mosaics.

Today it is the church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.

The Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror" was opened in Lviv on the territory of transit prison No. 25.

The prison was established in 1944 by the Soviet occupation administration, which replaced the Nazi one. During the Second World War, this place was the Lviv ghetto.

The museum complex has two barracks, watchtowers, barbed wire fence and other infrastructure facilities.

The museum tells the story of political, social, ethnic and religious repressions of totalitarian regimes against the population living in Ukraine.

The Museum of Metrology and Measuring Equipment operates under the State Enterprise "Lvivstandartmetrolohiya". It was founded on a non-profit basis. Later it received the status of "People's Museum".

The exposition, which reflects the development of metrology from the end of the 18th century to the present, occupies three halls of the first floor of the "Lvivstandartmetrolohiya" building and is planned by types of measurements. Today, the museum collection includes about 800 measuring equipment.

Among the unique tools for measuring geometric quantities, it is worth noting the micrometric inside gauge with a division value of 0.125 millimeters, a measurement limit of up to 875 millimeters (USA, 1900); a micrometer with a division value of 0.01 millimeters and a measurement limit of 25 to 50 millimeters (1908); a caliper with a measurement limit of 0 to 125 millimeters and a division value of 0.1 millimeters with two scales (USSR, 1940); a weighing-type indicator with a division value of 0.001 millimeters (1940), etc.

Among the devices for determining mass are glass weights of 1 kilogram, 1 pound, 200, 100, 50, 10 and 1 gram of the 1st category for checking weights of lower categories (Russia, 1915); weights of 2 pounds, 1 pound 1913; a weight weighing 48.3 zlotniks or 203.5 grams (Russia, 1914); a shoulder weight with a weighing limit of 55 kilograms, a division value of 0.5 kilograms (1884); a test balance with a sensitivity of 0.04 milligrams (Austria, 1906); balance with a weighing limit of up to 500 milligrams and a sensitivity of 0.01 milligrams (1951).

The stand of measuring equipment for the physical and chemical composition and characteristics of a substance includes glass sugar meters (Germany) with a measurement range from 54% to 84% (1932); glass alcohol meters with a measurement range from 34% to 100% and a division value of 0.1% (Germany, 1925); a metal alcohol meter with attached slides with a measurement range from 20 to 90 conventional units (1915); hydrometers, etc.

The stand of measuring instruments for flow, consumption, level, volume of substances and motion parameters presents a gas chamber type meter (Ivano-Frankivsk, 1956), a rotary gas meter, a water meter (Lviv, Lutsk, Austria, 1926-1956), exemplary meters of the 1st category (Germany), a taximeter, automobile speedometers, a revolution counter, etc.

Of particular interest is the stand with instruments for measuring pressure, vacuum, and temperature, which includes vacuum gauges graduated in millimeters of mercury, millivoltmeters, bridges, pyrometers, thermometers, and other instruments.

The stand of measuring instruments for electrical and magnetic quantities presents about 100 devices: ammeters, voltmeters, milliammeters and millivoltmeters, support stores, bridges, normal elements, electric energy meters, combined devices, etc.

Radio engineering and radio electronic devices are represented by an electron-beam oscilloscope, a modulation meter, a rheograph, a tissue hydration content meter, an electrocardiograph and an electrocardioscope.

The stand of measuring instruments and frequencies is represented by a frequency meter, an electric and mechanical stopwatch, a medium-precision wavemeter, a marine and aviation chronometer.

A monument to Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytskyi was opened in 2015 on the square in front of Saint George's Cathedral in Lviv.

Metropolitan Sheptytskyi is one of the most respected Ukrainian hierarchs. For more than 50 years, he was the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with a residence in Lviv.

The 3.6-meter-high monument is made of bronze. The total height of the composition is about 5.8 meters. The sculptor is Andriy Koverko, the architects are Ihor Kuzmak and Mykhaylo Fedyk.

A new exhibition of contemporary art of the Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery - Modernism Museum - opened in 2021 in a modern two-storey office building made of silicate brick, erected in Soviet times behind the Potocki Palace.

A retrospective of Lviv art from early modern experiments to examples of the aesthetics of late structuralism is unfolded in the seven halls of the museum.

The exhibition hall of historical avant-garde and high modernism of 1914-1939 begins the exposition. The next section illustrates the existential sensitivity of postwar society and the state of social alienation of Lviv intellectuals in the days of totalitarian pressure of 1939-1953, in particular the work of Karl Zvirynsky and the artists of his "hermetic circle". The following are the works of artists of 1960-1970: Yevhen Lysyk, Lubomyr Medvid, Ivan Ostafiychuk, Roman Zhuk, Roman Petruk, whose works trace the influences of European trends: Dadaism, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism, as well as the large-scale phenomenon of the "Lviv neo-avant-garde".

The last halls exhibit the works of the final phase of modern aesthetics and visualize the transitional period between Lviv modernism and postmodernism. The works of Myroslav Yahoda, Roman Zhuk, Rostyslav Lakh, and Andriy Sahaydakovsky reveal the phenomenon of anti-social alienation, close to the Western definition of "trans-avant-garde."

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 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.

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.

Museum-Reserve "Rusalka Dnistrova" is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery. Dedicated to the first Ukrainian folklore and literary almanac "Ruskalka of Dniester", which had a great influence on the Ukrainian national revival and the development of Ukrainian literature in Galicia.

It is located in the architectural monument of the 18th century - the bell tower of the Church of the Holy Spirit. In 1939, the church itself was destroyed by a German bomb, leaving only the bell tower with a baroque finish, on which there is a unique clock, donated in the 17th century by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky to the Manyavsky hermitage and later transported and installed on the Holy Spirit bell tower.

The museum's exhibits highlight the social, research, literary and publishing activities of the founders of the "Ruthenian Triad" (Ruska Triytsia) society, Markiyan Shashkevych, Ivan Vahylevych and Yakiv Holovatsky, who published the Western Ukrainian literary almanac "Rusalka Dnistrova" in the Ukrainian vernacular since 1873.

The Mykhaylo Hrushevsky Memorial Museum in Lviv was founded in 1998 in the mansion where he and his family lived in 1902-1914.

At that time, Hrushevskyi was a professor at Lviv University, and immediately became the initiator of the creation of the Ukrainian National Democratic Party.

The museum's main exposition is devoted to the Lviv period in Hrushevsky's life. The originals of his publications, photographs, letters of the scientist, personal belongings of the Hrushevsky family are presented.

The activities of Mykhaylo Hrushevsky at the head of the Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic are also highlighted.

The monument to Mykhaylo Hrushevskyi was erected in Lviv in 1994.

The outstanding Ukrainian historian taught at Lviv University in 1894-1914. It was in Galicia that the political activity of the future leader of the Ukrainian state, the head of the Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic, began.

The bronze sculpture, made by sculptors Dmytro Krvavych, Mykola Posikira, Lyubomyr Yaremchuk, is installed on a granite pedestal (architect Vasyl Kamenshchyk).

A monument to the Ukrainian composer Mykhaylo Verbytskyi, the author of the music for the national anthem of Ukraine, was opened in Lviv in 2015.

The height of the bronze sculpture is 2.9 meters. The notes of the melody of the Ukrainian national anthem are carved on the granite ceiling and a map of Ukraine is placed.

The authors of the monument are Volodymyr and Andriy Sukhorski.

The Oleksa Novakivsky Art Memorial Museum is located in the house where the famous Ukrainian painter has lived since 1913.

The exquisite red-brick villa, built in the late 19th century in the neo-Romanesque style by the famous Lviv architect Yulian Zakharevych, was once known as the palace of the Polish artist Yan Styka.

In 1907 it was bought by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky for the needs of the church museum. With the assistance of the Metropolitan in 1923-1935, the Oleksa Novakivsky Art School operated here - the first art school for young people in Western Ukraine, which became the leading center of artistic life in Lviv.

The artist's creative studio was located on the second floor of the house, and his family lived next door in five rooms. Since 1972, an art-memorial museum has been set up in these premises, covering the main stages of the artist's creative path.

The Oleksa Novakivsky Museum is a branch of the National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky in Lviv.

The Olena Kulchytska Art Memorial Museum was opened in 1971 in the artist's former apartment in Lviv, on the third floor of a residential building of the late 19th century.

According to the artist's will, all her creative heritage, apartments and personal belongings were donated to the Ukrainian people.

The exposition in four rooms reveals the artist's work in various genres and types of fine and applied arts. And also presents her as an innovator and creator of modern expression in Ukrainian art culture.

The best-preserved interior of the apartment reproduces the artist’s aesthetic preferences for the decoration of urban housing in the context of Ukrainian folk tradition and its creative interpretation.

The Olena Kulchytska Museum is a branch of the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky.