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Museums in Lviv
Museums in Lviv
Pharmacy Museum "Under the Black Eagle" (Sadly the custodian can be extremely impolite.)
Museum of Religion an interesting museum documenting both Jewish and Christian history of L'viv at one of L'viv's biggest and most beautiful churches.
The L'viv Art Gallery divided into several departments the central of which is on display at Potoskiy Palace showing mainly Renaissance and Baroque European art (for Ukrainian art see National Musem). Nearby is the Palace of Arts where changing contemporary art exhibitions take place. Other interesting branches of the Lviv Gallery are the Museum of Ancient Books, Museum of Relics and Pinsel Museum (dedicated to the local Baroque wood carver).
The Lviv Historical Museum divided into many departmants most of which are in the old town displaying archeology, history from medievil times up to the Ukrainian struggle for nationalism, as well as jewlery and armoury.
The Museum of Ethnography and Crafts
The Lviv National Museum The main building displays Ukrainian Art from the Middle Ages up to the 19th Century. Note that the L'viv Art Gallery mainly shows foreign art in its art collections so if you are more interested in Ukrainian art you should defenitly visit this museum.
Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture, on the central hill about a half-hour walk from the Lychakivskiy Cemetery. This is a collection of wooden buildings from all over Western Ukraine, dismantled and reassembled here; the multi-tiered churches are the most spectacular buildings, and are all still working churches.
Natural History Museum
The History of Printing Mseum
Museum of Metrology
Panchyshyn Museum of the History of Medicine
Museum of Embroidered Icons
Brewery Museum, renovated in 2009, entrance fee 15 UAH.
Arsenal Museum Weapons and armour from medieval times to the beginning of 20th century.
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