Attractions of Lviv region

The majestic city synagogue in Busk was built in the 18th century thanks to the donation of Yakob Hlanzer.

It is located near Rynok Square, where the Jewish community of the city used to live, which owned most of the shops.

During the Soviet times, the synagogue operated as a gym, later it was turned into a building materials warehouse, and later part of the synagogue was turned into a residential building. The building was rapidly collapsing. In the early 2000s, in order to preserve the monument, the uninhabited part of the synagogue was transferred to the Evangelical Christian community, which partially restored the building.

A large defense-type choral synagogue was built in Brody in 1742 instead of a wooden temple that burned down. The large brick building of the synagogue is crowned with a two-story attic.

During the Second World War, the synagogue was badly damaged and was not restored during the Soviet era. It is currently in a dilapidated state. In March 2021, one of the columns fell and part of the roof collapsed.

The Gunpowder Tower is a fully preserved fragment of Lviv's defensive structures. One of the 17 towers that were part of the ring of city fortifications. A monument of military defense architecture of the Renaissance era.

The Gunpowder tower was located on the defensive rampart behind the second line of fortifications and served to protect the approaches to the city from the eastern side. It was also used to store gunpowder and ammunition, and in peacetime - as a grain warehouse.

It is built of unhewn stone, semicircular in plan, three-story, covered with a gabled roof. The thickness of the walls reaches 2.5 meters. For more than four centuries, the rising ground level hid the lower part of the tower by one and a half to two meters.

Since 1959, the premises have been occupied by the Architect's House with an exhibition hall. Now the Center for Architecture, Design and Urbanism "Gunpowder Tower" is located here.

The Dobromyl castle of the Herburt family is located in the middle of a beech forest on the Blind Mountain (Slipa Hora, 566 meters), 3 kilometers south of Dobromyl.

Lviv castelian Stanislav Herburt began to build it from stone and brick in 1566 on the site of a wooden fortification founded in 1450 by Mykola Herburt, but soon burned by the Tatars. In 1614, Yan Shchasny Herburt thoroughly rebuilt the fortress. The oval shape of the Dobromyl castle in plan corresponded to the outline of the mountain.

The ruins of the northwestern part have been preserved, consisting of the remains of a massive multifaceted tower (internal diameter of about 17 meters) and fragments of walls diverging from it, 25-26 meters long. The tower is two-story with an entrance gate. In the first tier of the tower, loopholes with arched lintels are placed on two levels. The second tier is separated by a small ledge. Its walls are pierced with rectangular windows. The tower is completed by a high attic with a decorative blind arcade, similar to the attic of the castle in Stare Selo. The defensive walls are completed with the same attic, the top of which is at the level of the second tier of the tower. The Renaissance attic somewhat softens the harsh appearance of the powerful walls (thickness reaches 2 meters). The loopholes of the lower tier of the tower with large chambers (internal) and side holes in the cheeks were intended for conducting cross fire.

The castle has been abandoned since the 18th century. Unlike other castles of the palace type, it had exclusively defensive significance, and the living quarters were used only for temporary residence.

The first museum of Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi in Ukraine was opened in 2004 in the village of Ruda near Zhydachiv, where he lived in 1660-1664 and was probably buried. The museum is a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery.

Since 1660, this village belonged to the Vyhovsky family for more than a hundred years. The manager's house has been preserved from their estate, which houses an exposition reflecting the period of the struggle for Ukraine's independence from the times of Zaporizhzhian Sich to the end of the 1940s and 1950s.

Painting works by domestic and foreign artists of the XVII-XX centuries are widely presented here. In particular, a painting by an unknown artist (19th century) depicting Ivan Vyhovsky's wife Olena Stetkevych. Among the exhibits are works of sacred art of the XVII-XIX centuries. An icon of the Ascension (an unknown artist of the 2nd half of the 18th century) from the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in the village of Yosypovychy in Stryi region is kept here - the family church of the Vyhovskys. The icon was restored in 2004 by the workers of the restoration department of the Lviv Art Gallery.

The museum exhibits objects of material culture found near the former hetman's castle in the village of Ruda. Among the rare ones is an oak door from the Vyhovsky family church with a gift inscription of the hetman's daughter-in-law Tereza Zavadska, wife of Ostap's son.

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 first museum of the "Boykivshchyna" society in Sambir was organized in 1927 and is dedicated to the history and culture of the native inhabitants of the Boykiv region, whose informal capital is Sambir.

During the Soviet era, the museum was closed. Restored in 1990 as the Historical and Ethnographic Museum "Boykivshchyna".

Located in the former building of the parish school, built in 1679 on the foundations of the 16th century.

Permanent expositions: "Material and economic culture of the Boyki", "Family of Kozakevych" (one of the most ancient Sambir tribes), "Struggle for Ukrainian statehood in Sambir region and Boyki region".

In 2023, the Pharmacy-Museum "Under the Star" was opened in two halls of the "Boykivshchyna" museum, which tells about the history of medicine in the Boykivshchyna region. In the first hall, the interior of a classic city pharmacy of the XIX-XX centuries is recreated, glass and ceramic containers for medicines, various pharmaceutical equipment are presented. The second hall is designed as a witch doctor's room.

Workshops on painting Easter eggs are held.

The Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum was opened in 1927-1933 on the initiative of the "Native School Circle".

Dr. Mykhaylo Filts, artist Oleksa Kharkiv and others became active supporters of the museum cause. After the Second World War, the museum fell into disrepair.

In 2002, an updated exposition was opened. Today, the funds of the Yavorivshchyna Historical and Ethnographic Museum include 351 exhibits.

The museum exposition is housed in four rooms and conventionally divided into sections: "Spinning and weaving", "Economic and household items", "Ancient Yavoriv burden", "Folk crafts of the Yavoriv region", "Archaeological monuments and numismatics".

The exhibition of the works of Volodymyr Patyk "Wooden churches of Yavoriv region" has artistic value.

The pride of the museum is the library, which is constantly replenished.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum "Mostyshchyna" was established in 1994 to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the first written mention of Mostyska on the initiative of a group of activists led by local historian and local historian Ivan Sahan.

The museum is located in the very center of the city, near Rynok Square, in the former house of the district doctor, public figure, and prominent educator Omelyan Lebedovych, built in the 1920s.

The Mostyshchyna Museum's collections include almost 3,000 items.

The museum's five halls feature works of art, household items, antique furniture, archaeological finds, numismatics, materials (documents, diaries) about the native land, 300 rare books, weapons, and information about prominent people of Mostyshchyna.

A separate exhibition is dedicated to the figures of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion of Galicia, the national liberation movement in the region.

Of great value are the paintings of the outstanding artist Olena Kulchytska, found in the villages of Malniv and Cherneve.

Since 2018, the Historical and Local Lore Museum "Skolivshchyna" has been housed in 12 halls of an elegant two-story villa, built at the beginning of the 20th century, when industry and recreation were actively developing in Skole.

In the first room, objects of the Boykos forestry industry, agricultural remnants, household items of the highlanders, and folk crafts are collected. In the next hall, the interior of a Boykos hut is recreated with traditional household items and figures of the landlord and the landlord in national dress. The development of the school industry in the 19th and 20th centuries is told by photos and things of local entrepreneurs of the Baron Groedl.

Next, military paraphernalia and rarities from the times of the two world wars and the modern Russian-Ukrainian war are presented. In the sacred art hall, an iconostasis from the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Skole and a shroud from 1895 are exhibited.

You can also visit the stylized light house of Zakhar Berkut, the reconstruction of the UPA hideout, the NKVD interrogation room and the prison.

The State Historical and Cultural Reserve in Belz Town unites a complex of architectural monuments in the city center, a castle of the princely era, churches of various denominations, Christian and Jewish cemeteries.

The main object of the reserve is the Historical and Local Lore Museum, located in the premises of the town hall. Since the original town hall on the market square was destroyed during the Second World War, the 17th-century Dominican monastery cell building with a four-tiered baroque clock tower has been adapted for the magistrate. In 2004, the only surviving wall paintings of the monastery were found on the third tier of the tower.

The museum collection reflects the history and culture of the ancient population of Belz. In particular, the archaeological department presents materials from annual archaeological excavations, the most interesting of which are an arrowhead of the 1st millennium BC and an encolpion cross of the 11th century.

The collection of ancient men's and women's clothing, embroideries and household items related to weaving and embroidery form the basis of the Department of Folk Art and Ethnography of Belz region. The culture of the town's Jewish community is told by the ancient Torah, the clothing of the Belz Hasids, and old photographs.

Among the sacred monuments, the most valuable is the wooden sculpture of the Apostle Peter from the Church of Saint Paraskeva, dated to the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th century.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of Kamyanechchyna has been operating since 1996 at the Center for Children's and Youth Creativity of the Kamyanka-Buzka City Council.

The exposition in four halls tells about the history of Kamyanechchyna since ancient times, the national liberation struggle in the territory of the region, the culture and lifestyle of local residents, the history of the Kamianka-Buzka theater.

A separate exposition is dedicated to the family of public and public figures Tsegelskyi. Thanks to the efforts of Father Mykhaylo Tsehelsky, a new Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and the People's House appeared in Kamyanka. In 1875, his son Lonhyn was born in his family, who later became the first minister of internal affairs of the ZUNR. The personal belongings of the Tsehelsky family members and their furniture are presented.

Among other exhibits of the museum are the original map of Galicia from the 1940s, old postcards with architectural monuments of Kamyanka-Buzka, as well as photos and materials related to the figures of the Ukrainian national movement.

The historical museum complex of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv is located in the former villa of Lviv University professor Emil Dunikovsky, which was built in 1896-1898 by architect Vladislav Raush in the Neo-Baroque style.

In 1911 it was purchased for the needs of the Church Museum by its founder and patron, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. It was here in 1913 that the first exposition of the National Museum in Lviv was opened.

Now in the Historical museum complex the permanent exposition "Ukrainian art of the XX-th century" is developed. It is a continuation of the exposition of Ukrainian art of the XII-XIX centuries, which is located in the main building of the museum on Svobody Avenue.

The presented works present the formation and development of Ukrainian art culture in line with the main styles and directions of world art of the last century, and reflects the cultural and artistic processes of the Soviet period, which developed outside the normative aesthetics of socialist realism.

The Uhniv Historical and Local Lore Museum was opened in 2006 at the Uhniv Agrarian and Construction Lyceum on the initiative of teacher Halyna Hubenya.

The exposition of the museum gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the history of the city, everyday life, traditions and legends, to get acquainted with notable people who were born and lived in the city of Uhniv.

All exhibits are authentic and unique: Uhniv clothing, images, millstones, household items of Uhniv residents, historical documents. In particular, the famous "Uhnivtsi" boots, in which Ivan Franko used to come to the city, are presented.

The fire and technical exhibition of the Ministry of Emergencies was opened in the building of the Fire Safety Department in Lviv region.

The first hall reflects the history of fire development in Galicia and, in particular, in Lviv. Among the exhibits is an Austrian-made pump from 1849.

The second hall is dedicated to the everyday life of firefighters.

The exposition concludes with a hall dedicated to the Chornobyl disaster.