Museums of Lviv

If you want to know a person closer you look at his photos. If you want to learn a city better you should visit its museums because these are places where the main historical events and individual features of character of the city are imprinted in exhibits, chronicles and art gallery images forever!

You are going to see unique and numerous museums of Lviv that are gently storing treasures of historical epochs of the world civilization!
Visit the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, a museum in open air that will help to understand secrets of Ukrainian people’s nature better; the Museum of Ethnography and Art craft. You will see historical documents, archeological findings, sacral relics and art works of the Museum of the oldest monuments of Lviv. Do not forget to drop at the Museum of Ukrainian book and the Museum of religion history that will tell you the history of the world and national religions and give some facts on activity of religious organizations. Moreover, it is worthy seeing thousands of exhibits of Lviv historical and National Museum of Lviv.
In support of its status of a “cultural capital” Lviv offers you to visit Lviv Gallery Art (one of the richest museums of Ukraine), museum of John Pinzel called as “Galician Michelangelo” and art galleries “Chaos”, “LvivArt”, “Primus”, “OM” and “Green sofa” that have prepared for you a great variety of interesting exhibits of modern painters, graphic artists, sculptors and jewelers.

Lviv will surprise you with its extraordinary museums such as the prison museum situated in the premise where punitive institutions of occupation troops dislocated, memorial Cemetery Museum, Pharmacy Museum, the first Ukrainian beer making museum, appetizing chocolate workshop museum and even the Museum of Ideas!
Visit a museum city of Lviv and plunge into the world of cognitive emotions!

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