Attractions of Lviv district

The first oceanarium in Lviv opened in 2020 in the city center, on Tarasa Shevchenko Avenue, in the former premises of the "Kyiv" cinema. This is one of the projects of a team of professional aquarists led by Oleksandr and Yana Yanovsky.

On three floors there is a labyrinth with more than 20 aquariums of various sizes, as well as an underwater tunnel 18 meters long. At the time of its opening, the collection included more than 3,000 different sea creatures. In particular, blacktip sharks, three types of rays, spotted gars, porcupinefiseh, clownfishes, yellowface angelfishes, red lionfishes, Midas cichlids, giant gouramis, piranhas and other types of fish and sea turtles live in the oceanarium.

Excursions are conducted in Ukrainian, Russian, English and Polish. A souvenir shop is open, orders for aquarium fish are accepted.

The Lviv Photo Museum opened in 2023 in the basement of the Palace of Arts on Mykoly Kopernyka Street in Lviv.

The museum's exposition presents a unique collection of thousands of rare exhibits, which have been collected by the Lviv collector Roman Metelsky for years. These are cameras from the late 19th to the 21st centuries from all over the world, old equipment for viewing slides and films, photographs and photo frames, etc.

The museum consists of a permanent exhibition and a temporary changing exhibition. During the excursion, you can explore the world history of the development of photography and photographic equipment, the history of Lviv photography, the history of Ukrainian enlightenment and cinema in Lviv, and learn the personal stories of Lviv photo artists.

The Lviv Puppet Theater was founded in 1946. It is located in a building that was built in 1913 as the "Craft Chamber" according to the project of architect Yan Protshke.

The building is made in the Neo-Renaissance style. Nowadays, fragments of authentic stained-glass windows in the Secession style and incredible forging are still preserved on the ceiling.

The Lviv Puppet Theater began its activities with the premiere of the folk tale "Ivasyk-Telesyk" based on Ivan Franko's fairy tale.

The Lviv Railway History Museum is dedicated to the creation and development of the oldest railway line in Ukraine. It was founded in 1973 and became the first railway museum in Ukraine. It is located in the Palace of Science and Technology of the Lviv-West locomotive depot next to the railway station.

The exposition of the museum tells about the birth and construction of the Lviv Railway in Halychyna, Volhynia, in the Carpathians and further south to the city of Chernivtsi during the times of Austria-Hungary, Poland, the USSR and at the current stage of Ukraine's development.

Among the exhibits are rare documents, photographs, tools, devices, models, equipment and uniforms of employees of railway professions from different times. The pride of the museum is the album "Volodymyr-Volynskyi - Sokal Line" published in 1916, trilingual passenger tickets from 1918-1921, as well as the Koptomir counting machine, which was used until 1939.

The Lviv Region Electrification History Museum was opened in 2018 at the initiative of Lvivoblenergo PJSC. The exhibition is located on the first floor of the "Lvivoblenergo" building near the "Zalizna Voda" park.

The museum tells about the history of energy development in Lviv from the end of the 19th century. In particular, the model of the first electric tram, which was launched in the city in 1894, is presented. Visitors are offered to set the tram in motion with the help of a dynamo.

You can also see a plan for the laying of cable lines of the city of Lviv from 1908, a copy of a street arc lamp from 1909, a model of a coal mine and its electrical equipment, electric meters from different times, working tools and remains of electricians.

The interior of the laboratory of engineer-inventor Nikola Tesla is reproduced in the museum, and the work of the Tesla coil is demonstrated.

In front of the entrance to the museum, there is a stand dedicated to the memory of Taras Krukenytskyi, director of the Lviv City Electricity Networks. A landmark for visitors is the mural depicting Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison on the fence.

Visiting the museum is possible only with a guided tour and by prior appointment.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum in the city of Vynnyki is a communal institution of the Lviv Regional Council. It was opened in 1991 in the former mansion of doctor Yakiv Nahlyak (1935). The exposition is located in three halls.

The archeological collection presents everyday objects of primitive hunters, finds from the Trypillian period, a unique treasure from the Hallstatt-Laten era and a mysterious stone statue. Among the archaeological artifacts of the western region of Ukraine are a Viking sword, one of three cauldrons in the world with the image of Swabian warriors, a fragment of a stone tile with a "smiling face", etc.

The expositions of the "History of the Middle Ages" and "Modern History" departments tell about the origin and development of the city of Vynnyky. In particular, items from the Vynnyky Castle and the first tobacco factory of Galicia, a collection of ancient printed publications of the 17th-19th centuries, personal belongings of the famous opera singer Oleksandra Lyubich-Parakhonyak, ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Ukraine Ivan Lypa and Ivan Ohiyenko are presented.

The museum also has exhibition halls in Vynnyky, which are located in a building at 5 Ivasyuka Street. Personal, scientific, ethnographic and artistic exhibitions, thematic lectures, seminars and symposia are held here.

The departments of the Lviv Regional Historical and Local Lore Museum are:
- Volodymyr Patyk Museum (Lviv);
- Weaving and Carpet Making Museum (Glyniany);
- Lord Homestead Museum (Zhuravnyky).

The Lyantskoronsky manor in the city of Komarno was founded in the 18th century opposite the old castle. The palace in the style of classicism was built at the end of the 19th century.

Until 1939, a Polish school was located in the estate. During the Second World War, the palace was badly damaged and has not been restored since then, now it is in ruins. The park is in a very neglected state.

The elegant Renaissance building of the palace was built for Count Sapeha, but later architect Yan de Vitte rebuilt it for the Lyubomyrskyi family.

Since the 19th century, the building belonged to the Ukrainian society "Prosvita".

Currently, the premises of the Lyubomirskyi Palace house the exposition of the Museum of Ancient European Furniture and Porcelain (680 items) - a branch of the Museum of Ethnography and Art Crafts of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

The main railway station of Lviv is also called "Dvorets". Historically, this is the oldest railway station on the territory of Ukraine. The first train arrived in Lviv in 1861.

The current building of the station was built in 1904 according to the project of the architect Vladyslav Sadlovskyi. The facade is decorated with sculptures "Industry" and "Trade".

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 "Lvivstandartmetrologiya". 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 "Lvivstandartmetrologiya" 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.

The military cemetery of the First World War is located in the rural cemetery on the outskirts of Hlynsk.

Soldiers who died in 1915 during the campaign of the Austro-Hungarian army to Lviv occupied by Russian troops are buried here. Nearby are Ukrainians, Poles, Germans and Hungarians.

The entire cemetery is crowned by a rectangular memorial column, as a symbol of the triumph of the Austro-Hungarian troops over the Russians. On the four sides of the column, dedications to the fallen soldiers are written in four languages - German, Hungarian, Ukrainian and Polish.

The battle that took place in the vicinity of the village of Hlynsk on June 21, 1915, enabled the troops of General Bom-Ermoli to liberate Lviv from Russian troops. Reburials were carried out in July 2015.