Attractions of Lviv district

The Museum of Glass in Lviv was established on the initiative of a famous Ukrainian glazier, chairman of the organizing committee of the International Symposiums of Tempered Glass in Lviv, former rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Professor Andriy Bokotey.

Since 2006, the museum has been operating in the basement of the Bandinelli Palace in the Rynok Square. Since then, the museum's collection has been systematically replenished with works created as part of the International Symposium of Tempered Glass. Part of it was transferred to the funds of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

Among the oldest exhibits are glassware and beads made in the I-II centuries AD in the Roman colonies in southern Ukraine, beads and utensils from the XI-XII centuries, as well as bracelets and fragments of bracelets found during archaeological excavations.

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 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 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.

The Museum of the History of Lviv Polytechnic was founded in 2002 on the initiative of the then rector Yuriy Rudavsky.

The museum premises are located on the third floor of a monumental three-story building - an educational building, built according to the design of Yulian Zakhariyevych in 1873-1877 in the Italian Neo-Renaissance style specifically for the Imperial and Royal Technical Academy. Now it is the main building of the National University "Lviv Polytechnic", which is an architectural monument.

The museum premises have a rich architectural decor - pilasters, stucco molding, light lanterns in the ceiling, wall and ceiling paintings. The window overlooking the central staircase opens a view of the richly decorated space of the stairs and original paintings of the 1890s, made according to the sketches of Yulian Zakhariyevych.

The museum's exposition contains documents, photographs, devices and other exhibits that tell about the foundation and development of Lviv Polytechnic, the oldest technical university in Ukraine and one of the oldest in Europe. The history of the formation of Lviv Polytechnic is presented in chronological order, as well as information about world-famous scientists whose fate is connected with Lviv Polytechnic. Historical photographs of buildings, students' studies and everyday life are also presented for viewing. Special attention during the excursions will be paid to the involvement of Lviv Polytechnic in oil production or electrification of Galicia, the development of aviation, astronautics and computer science.

The Museum of the History of the Kruty Heroes Lviv State Lyceum covers the history of the creation and development of the educational institution, as well as some pages of the history of the formation of Ukrainian statehood.

The first chapter of the exhibition is dedicated to the Battle of Kruty in January 1918 and the memory of the Heroes of Kruty. The stands show the ratio of forces, the composition of units, the course of the battle. All this is illustrated by diagrams, maps, tables. The stand is complemented by elements of armaments of that time: the German Mauser 98 self-loading rifle of the 1898 model, the Russian Mosin rifle of the 1891 model, and the Maxim machine gun.

A separate exposition section is devoted to the prehistory of the lyceum - Lviv Republican Special Boarding School with enhanced military and physical training, which operated from 1985 to 1992, and on the basis of which the lyceum was formed. The section of the history of the lyceum and its development in the conditions of formation of the Ukrainian statehood consists of 4 blocks: creation and development of the Lviv military lyceum (1992-1996); development of Lviv State Lyceum with enhanced military and physical training (1996-2010); lyceum in the period up to 2018; lyceum at the present stage.

Two stands in the museum are dedicated to weapons of different periods. The exhibition presents 18 samples of weapons since the eighteenth century. Some of the materials are presented in multimedia form on an interactive panel, which was presented at the opening of the updated exhibition in 2022.

The Lviv Museum of the History of Religion has been operating in the premises of the 14th-18th century Dominican Monastery in Lviv since 1973.

This work by the Austrian architect Yan de Vitte is one of the best examples of Baroque architecture in the city.

The exposition of the museum tells about the history of world and national religions and church organizations of all times: religions of the ancient world, Judaism, early Christianity, the Armenian Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Orthodoxy in Ukraine, Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism.

Some of the 50,000 exhibits have unique cult, artistic and historical value. In particular, there is a large collection of icons of the XVI-XIX centuries, a large collection of Bibles (including the Ostroh Bible of 1581 and published in Paris in 1563), the reliquary of Saint Anthony of the XI century and more.

The museum practices various forms of scientific and educational work: lectures, excursions, concerts of organ and chamber music.

The exhibition of rare models of transport "Retro Garage" has been on display since 2018 in the premises of the Museum of the History of Science and Technology, which is a department of the Lviv Historical Museum.

The exhibition of retro cars is set up in the oldest hangar from the complex of the first tram depot in Lviv, built in 1894 by the Lviv architect Alfred Kamenobrodsky. The rectangular brick structure has a gable roof supported on wooden trusses supported by side walls and wooden posts.

On an area of more than 500 square meters, Andriy Hladun's private collection of bicycles, mopeds, and motorcycles from the first half of the 20th century and a number of examples of the American automobile industry of the 1970s and 1980s from the collection of collector Taras Mayba are presented.

The Chevrolet Caprice Classic 1986 police car attracts the most attention of visitors. In addition, the museum presents the first city taxi of pre-war Lviv Citroen AC4 Berline Lux and a real fiakr (horse taxi). You can familiarize yourself with the samples of the products of the Lviv Motorcycle Plant from the years 1950–1970 from the funds of the Lviv Historical Museum.

Private collections of car models and American license plates are also exhibited at the exhibition.

The Museum of the History of Ukraine of the Lviv Historical Museum is housed in a four-story building on Rynok Square in Lviv, known as the "Massarivska Kamyanytsia" (Massari House). Built in the XV century in the Gothic style, later rebuilt in the style of the Renaissance.

For some time the house belonged to the family of the Venetian consul Antonio Massari. In the middle of the XIX century there was a delicacy shop Henneman. At the beginning of the XX century the facade was decorated with a triangular pediment, decorated with an allegorical relief by the sculptor Kurchynsky. Late Gothic vaults and windows on the first floor, elements of Renaissance interior decoration have been preserved.

Now in "Massarivska kamyanitsa" there is a historical exposition, which presents more than 2100 monuments of Ukrainian history from ancient times to the early twentieth century: Neolithic instruments and musical instruments, Trypillia ceramics, golden Scythian treasure, ancient Rus crosses, encolpions, medieval Lviv executioner swords, magnate women's and men's clothing, Cossack weapons, astronomical table clock of the XVIII century, collections of old prints and paintings. The portrait of young Roksolana, a girl Nastya Lisovska from Rohatyn, a Turkish prisoner who became the wife of Sultan Suleiman II, is still a secret.

The powerful defensive church of the holy apostles Peter and Paul in Peremyshliany was built in 1645 for the Dominican monastery at the expense of the Potocki magnates who owned the city.

In 1730, the church was reconstructed and soon became a parish church. After the Second World War, the temple was closed and resumed its work only in 1997. Restoration has been carried out.

The interior design, designed by Politynskyi, has been preserved.

The Peter and Paul Church in Lviv was built in 1668 as a Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul.

In 1750, the temple was handed over to the monastic order of the Paulines, who rebuilt the building in the Baroque style and placed their monastery in it. In 1784-1786, the Austrian authorities handed over the shrine to the Greek Catholics. In 1798, the architect Klemens Ksaveriy Fesenher built a vestibule with a tower in the style of classicism.

Since 1989, the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul belonged to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. Since December 15, 2018, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was built in Zhovkva in 1993 by a young, talented architect, Oles Yarema, who chose the light shade of the sun for the church, decorated it with white arches and large, full-floor windows.

The bell tower, completed in 2007, was the most important addition to the church.

Inside the Peter and Paul Church are the relics of the holy martyrs, which were presented to the city in honor of the opening of the church. Some of them can be seen in holy icons - the relics are placed next to the images, some of them are in a sealed form. Including the relics of Pope Clement, martyrs Parthenius, Stephen and others.

The Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr the Great is a visiting card of the modern village of Zubra.

The large five-domed Orthodox church on the hill is clearly visible from the Lviv district road through the village.

The church in the name of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr the Great was built by the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 1991. The interiors are decorated with colored stained-glass windows, mosaics, and wall paintings.

The Church of the Holy Spirit in Hlyniany was built in 1791-1831 in the style of early classicism, but at the beginning of the 20th century it was rebuilt in the neo-baroque style.

Before that, several wooden churches were built in Hlyniany from the 14th century, which often burned during fires. The new stone temple was consecrated in 1840 - these numbers are indicated on the facade. The main shrine was the icon of the Mother of God of Lopatyn, which was taken to Poland at the end of the Second World War.

In Soviet times, the building was used as a warehouse, then as office premises.

In 2000, the restored Church of the Holy Spirit was re-consecrated. It belongs to the Roman Catholic community of the city.