The Furniture and Porcelain Museum is an annex of Lviv’s Museum of Ethnography and Arts Crafts. The museum features a remarkable collection of almost 700 examples of Ukrainian and European furniture, and textiles as well as 17th-19th-century metalwork.
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This Neo-Renaissance architectural treasure once belonged to powerful Potocki family, one of Central Europe’s most influential clans. Alfred Józef Potocki, then Minister-President of Austria, commissioned a renowned French architect, who designed this grand Lviv townhouse in the style of an ornate French hôtel particulier. Today the palace is a downtown branch of the Lviv Art Gallery with exhibits of European paintings from the 14th – 18th centuries.
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Shevchenkivs’kyi Hai is an open-air museum of Ukrainian village life and a living reproduction of Western Ukraine from centuries past. Here you can experience Ukrainian village just like it was back then in wooden huts, with no electricity and other modern conveniences. Shevchenkivs’kyi Hai is 3 km from Lviv’s center and close to Vysokyi Zamok Park.
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Lychakiv Cemetery, often called Lychakiv Necropolis, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe. Each year its architectural beauty attracts hordes of tourists and it has been compared to famed Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Lychakiv Cemetery is spread over an area of 40 hectares and its main entrance is on Mechnykova Street outside Lviv’s center.
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The National Museum was founded in 1905 by Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, who donated some 10,000 items to the museum and helped raise funds for its endowment and to acquire the gorgeous Neo-Baroque villa that houses the collection. The museum has Ukraine’s largest collection of religious art and artifacts, including many icons that date from the 12th to 18th centuries. The National Museum sits right on Lviv’s central avenue Prospect Svobody close to the Opera House.
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