Attractions of Lviv region

The memorial homestead museum of the sculptor Ivan Samotos was opened in 2023 in his family home in the village of Ustia in the Lviv Region.

The outstanding Ukrainian sculptor, People's Artist of Ukraine Ivan Samotos was born in Ust in 1933. He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts - now the Lviv National Academy of Arts, where Samotos headed the Department of Monumental and Decorative Sculpture.

During his lifetime, Samotos created more than 120 monuments and memorial signs, the most famous of which is the monument to Vyacheslav Chornovol in Lviv.

During his lifetime, Samotos dreamed of creating a museum-workshop in his parents' house in Usta. The idea was implemented on the initiative of Ivan Samotos' wife Oksana and his daughter Natalia. The authentic interior has been preserved in the house. The exposition presents the personal belongings of the artist, family photos, as well as some author's works of the sculptor.

The Ivan Trush Art Memorial Museum in Lviv was opened in 1989, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth.

It is a two-storey building built in 1910 by order of the artist designed by the famous Ukrainian architect Oleksandr Lushpynsky in the style of the late Art Nouveau. He lived here with his family until the end of his life.

The museum exposition presents the main pages of the painter's life and work, presents him as a prominent Ukrainian impressionist, landscape master, portraitist, author of genre compositions, as well as popularizer of Ukrainian culture, editor and publisher of Ukrainian magazines, active public figure of the early twentieth century.

Portraits of prominent Ukrainian figures, paintings with views of Lviv and Kyiv, landscapes of the Crimea and the Carpathians, Italian and Egyptian landscapes, as well as family photos and memorials are presented.

The Ivan Trush Museum is a branch of the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

The collegium at the Jesuit monastery was founded in Sambir in 1680.

Hetman Petro Sahaydachniy studied here.

The current Baroque building was built in 1756-1759 by the architect Karshnytskiy.

Later, the Jesuit college was transformed into a gymnasium. Now it is the Sambir College of Culture.

The three-story building of the Jesuit Collegium in Lviv was built in 1839-1842 in the style of classicism according to the project of the architect Fidelis Shtadler. After the banning of the Jesuit order, barracks were located in the premises for a certain time. In 1851, the building was transferred to Lviv University.

Currently, in the premises of the former Jesuit collegium, the biological and geological faculties of LNU, as well as the Museum complex of the university, which includes the Zoological Museum, the Paleontological Museum, the Mineralogical Museum and the Museum of Ore Formations.

The Zoological Museum of LNU is one of the oldest university museums in Europe - it was founded back in 1784 as the Cabinet of Natural History. About 10,000 exhibits in four halls represent the animal world of all continents and all water areas of the globe. The halls are equipped with multimedia panels that allow you to hear the songs of birds and see the life of animals in their natural environment.

The Paleontological Museum of LNU exhibits plant and animal remains in the form of fossils, which tell about the development of life on the planet. The museum funds include more than 18,000 paleontological and geological specimens discovered in deposits of different ages on all continents.

The mineralogical museum of LNU named after academician Yevhen Lazarenko was founded in 1852. His collection includes giant crystals of apatite from Transbaikalia, giant crystals of morion and feldspar from chamber pegmatites of Volyn, pyrites from the Berezivka gold ore deposit in the Urals, unique drusen aggregates of smoky quartz from the Urals, native sulfur from the Shor-Su deposit in Central Asia, samples meteorites

The Museum of Ore Formations of LNU exhibits various ores from more than 500 deposits of Ukraine and the world.

The pharmacy-museum of the world-famous inventor of industrial oil refining Johann Zeg opened in 2021 in the city park of culture and recreation of Boryslav, is still a leading center of the oil industry of Galicia. Here is one of the largest deposits of ozokerite, ie mountain paraffin, which has medicinal properties.

The exposition of the museum acquaints visitors with the history of Galician pharmaceuticals, experiments on oil distillation, extraction and use of ozokerite, prominent figures of Boryslav and the life of Johann Zeg.

In particular, a model of a distiller is presented - a device for dividing oil into fractions, as well as a collection of pharmacy bars and kerosene lamps of different eras.

The wooden church of John the Baptist in Boryslav was built in 1879.

Previously, the wooden church of the Resurrection, which has been known since the 15th century, stood on this place.

The church is cruciform in plan, one-story, surrounded by a canopy. In the lower part, the original beams of the log house are visible (the rest of the walls are covered with wooden lining). The wooden iconostasis of the 19th century has been preserved in the interior.

There is an old three-tiered wooden bell tower nearby, as well as a new stone one. To the left of the entrance gate is a tall monument to John the Baptist, covered with a roof on columns.

The very ancient church of John the Baptist is one of the few buildings preserved in Lviv from princely times. It is located in the Old Market (Stary rynok) area at the foot of the High Castle (Vysoky zamok).

According to legend, the Hungarian princess Konstantsiya, the wife of Galicia-Volyn prince Lev Danylovych, king of Rus, is buried here.

The first written mention of the Church of John the Baptist in Lviv dates back to 1371. The building was rebuilt in the 19th century in the pseudo-Romanesque style, but some fragments of the original architecture have survived to this day.

Currently, the premises are occupied by the Museum of the Oldest Lviv Monuments (a branch of the Lviv National Art Gallery). The exhibition tells about culture, crafts and life in the times that belong to the founding of the city. The most valuable exhibit is the "Lviv Mother of God" icon (XIV century). A plastic panorama of Lviv from the 18th century is also exhibited.

Since 2009, services of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church have been held in the Church of John the Baptist every Sunday and on holidays.

The earth ramparts of the bastion-type Komarno castle have been preserved in the city of Komarno at the exit towards Peremozhne.

The castle was founded in the 15th century by the Galician elder Stanislav Khodetskyi. In the 18th century, the castle lost its importance after the owner of Komarno, Antoniy Yuzef Lyantskoronskyi, built a new tycoon's residence nearby.

Now the castle is used as a stadium "Gazovik" with a football field in the castle yard and tribunes on ramparts with corner bastions that are clearly visible. Nearby is an old Victorian brick building, which now houses one of the buildings of the city hospital.

The manor-museum of the leader of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, the second head of the OUN, Colonel Andriy Melnyk, was opened in his native village of Volia Yakubova in 2020 on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of his birth.

Andriy Melnyk was born in 1890 in the family of a local priest and public servant Atanas Melnyk, who was friends with the family of Ivan Franko. Franko himself visited the Melnyky residence in Volia Yakubova more than once. This formed the foundations of the national consciousness and patriotism of young Andriy even in his childhood.

The museum was set up in an old house of the beginning of the 20th century, in which Andriy Melnyk's relatives once lived.

One of the rooms in the house has been preserved in an authentic state - with a clay floor. Household items and farm tools used by village craftsmen at that time were collected here. Some of them belonged to relatives of Colonel Melnyk. The exposition in another part of the house is dedicated directly to the life of Andriy Melnyk and his participation in the national liberation movement.

The Leopold Levytsky Art Memorial Museum was established in the artist's former home in Lviv. Located in a house built in 1891 by Hustav Bizants.

Prominent Ukrainian graphic artist of the twentieth century Leopold Levytsky is considered one of the pioneers of Ukrainian graphic design and advertising. His museum was founded in 1984 on the initiative of the artist's wife Henya Levytska.

The exposition in three rooms highlights the artist's creative achievements in graphics and painting, but also recreates the special environment of the Lviv intelligentsia in which he lived and worked.

The Leopold Levytsky Museum is a branch of the Lviv National Museum named after Andrey Sheptytsky.

The Lviv Academic Theater named after Les Kurbas is located in the building of the former Casino de Paris, built in 1909 according to the project of architects Zygmunt Fedorsky and Stanislav Matsudzinsky.

Between the First and Second World Wars, this building housed a cinema, during Soviet times it belonged to the House of Folk Art.

The Les Kurbas Theater was founded in this building by Volodymyr Kuchynskyi and a group of young actors in 1988. His repertoire is distinguished by highly intellectual stage adaptations of the works of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Platon, and Vasyl Stus, Lina Kostenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and others.

The Literary Museum of Les Martovych was opened in 1974 in the village of Monastyrok, where this outstanding Ukrainian writer and public figure spent the last years of his life.

Materials for the exposition were collected by activists of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. These are mostly books of different years and other printed materials. Lviv artist Volodymyr Patyk presented the museum with a portrait of Martovych painted especially for him.

Since 2008, the Martovych Museum in Monastyrok has not been functioning. An initiative group on the restoration of the museum was created and is working.

Limpopo Zoo in Medenychi is the largest zoo in Lviv region.

It contains more than 300 animals representing hundreds of different species of world fauna. The territory of the zoo is more than 3 hectares.

There is a cafe and a summer yard on the territory of the zoo.

The Literary and Art Museum of Ukrainian writers Ulyana Kravchenko and Mykola Ustiyanovych was founded in 1991 in their hometown of Mykolaiv, Lviv region.

The exhibition tells about the life and work of these artists, introduces photos from family archives and some personal belongings. In particular, the first collection of Ulyana Kravchenko's poems "Prima Vera", her other works, authentic items of clothing, paintings, busts of Ivan Franko and Ulyana Kravchenko are presented.

Visitors can also get acquainted with the lives and stories of other famous people of the Mykolaiv region - artists, artists, composers, sculptors, singers.

The Stryi Museum of Local Lore "Verkhovyna" is located in the former house of the Stryi lawyer and public-politician Yevhen Olesnytsky (built in 1899), which at the beginning of the 20th century was a center of Ukrainian culture and public life.

The museum's funds include 26,000 storage units. The exhibition consists of three sections: nature, ethnography, and history of the region.

The history section informs about the oldest settlements on the territory of the region, the history of medieval Stryi, the Opryshky movement. Covers the history of Stryshchyna during the period of Austrian occupation, the events of the First World War, the struggle of the locals for the Ukrainian state.

The most valuable exhibits: ancient books, icons, Boykiv and Hutsul Easter eggs, as well as Cossack and Opryshky weapons. A separate exposition is devoted to the activities of the UPA.

The Verkhovyna Museum of Local Lore includes:
- Memorial complex "Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine";
- Bandera family Memorial Museum-Manor;
- Olha Bachynska Memorial Museum;
- Artist Petro Obal Museum.