Lviv

Musea in Lviv

Museums & Art Galleries

Lviv’s museums offer a comprehensive look at Western Ukrainian history and art. The collection includes the National Art Gallery, Ukraine’s largest art museum, and the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum, focused on ecclesiastical and folk art. Architectural highlights include the Renaissance-style Black House and the 19th-century Potocki Palace. Specialized sites like the Pharmacy Museum, the Lviv Beer Museum, and the Lviv Arsenal showcase specific regional industries and defensive history, while the open-air Skansen preserves historic rural wooden architecture from across the Carpathians.

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Skansen of Folk Architecture and Rural Life „Shevchenkivskyi Hai“

Located on the wooded hills of Kaiserwald, this open-air museum features over 120 historic wooden structures, including churches, farmsteads, and workshops relocated from various ethnographic regions of Western Ukraine, such as Boykivshchyna and Hutsulshchyna.

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Potocki Palace

The Potocki Palace in Lviv was built in the 1880s as an urban seat of Alfred Józef Potocki, former Minister-President of Austria.

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Lviv National Art Gallery

Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery is the largest art museum in Ukraine, with over 62,000 artworks in its collection, including…

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Lviv National Museum

The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv is one of Ukraine's largest museums, dedicated to Ukrainian culture in all its manifestations.

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Lviv Arsenal Museum

The City Arsenal is the oldest of three historic arsenal buildings in Lviv, Ukraine.

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Pharmacy Museum

The Pharmacy Museum in Lviv, Ukraine, was opened in 1966 in the building of an old drugstore at the corner of the Market Square.

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Lviv Beer Museum

A must-see attraction for all beer lovers. You will get to know the mysterious process of brewing the delicate drink!

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Black House

The Black House is a remarkable Renaissance building on the Market Square in the city of Lviv, Ukraine.

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National Museum & Memorial to the Victims of Occupation

The National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, or the Prison on Łącki is a former detention center in Lviv, Ukraine,…

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Palace of Arts

An extensive exhibition hall covering more than 3,600 squared metres! Many events and concerts take place here.

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Korniakt Palace

Rynok Square is a central square of the city of Lviv, Ukraine. According to archaeological data, the square was planned in the second half…

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Gas Lamp

An interesting combination of a restaurant and a museum in one place. While having a great meal, you can admire a collection of kerosene…

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Museum of Ancient Ukrainian Books

Interested in literature? You should definitely visit this museum with a collection of 12,000 original pieces of Ukrainian books!

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Muzej pam'atok starodavnogo Lvova

Housed in the 13th-century Church of St. John the Baptist, this museum displays archaeological artifacts, historical maps, and scale models illustrating Lviv’s urban development from its founding through the Middle Ages.

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Hudozno-memorialnij muzej Oleksi Novakivskogo

Dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian impressionist painter, this museum is located in the artist’s former home and studio. It preserves a collection of his expressionist canvases, sketches, and personal belongings within a late 19th-century villa.