Your Guide to
Travel, Entertainment, Business and Expat Life in Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg, Ukraine.

Golden Treasures of Lost Civilizations is a year-long exhibit at Potocki Palace. The exhibit, which runs until December 30, 2012, features relics from the Bronze Age to the Kievan Rus' period. The collection includes everyday household items, jewelry, tools and weapons of gold, silver, nonferrous metals, bone and glass from the Northern Black Sea and Mediterranean regions.

From May 18th to August 26th Lviv's National Museum will host "Normandy in Painting." The exhibition features 19th and 20th works by French Impressionists including Renoir, Monet, Gericault, Courbet and Corot. The paintings depict episodes from the artists lives in Normandy with an emphasis on nature, the seaside and rural life.

"The Trypillian Code" will have a long run at the Potocki Palace from June 2nd till December 31st 2012. The exhibit includes over 400 artifacts that date from from 4500-3000 B.C. from the Trypillian culture, one of the largest Neolithic settlements, which stretched from the Carpathians to the Dnieper and Dnister River regions and encompassed parts of modern-day Romania, Moldova and Ukraine.

From June 8th, 2012 till February 11th, 2013, the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe will host "Sport and the City: People. Society. Ideology." The exhibit traces the history of sports in Lviv over the past 150 years, from the beginnings of sports in Europe and particularly in Lviv, including the relationship between sports and nationalism, sports and government, sports and commerce, and sports on a global level. Admission is free.

Every Saturday and Sunday evening beginning July 7th till August 19th grab a partner, head to Park Kultury, and experience Lviv's Dance Summer Weekends. The Ukrainian Dance Federation and 25 leading dance schools in Lviv and Western Ukraine is offering free master classes, concerts and an open-air dance party.

From Thursday, July 26th to Sunday, August 19th the Lemish Gallery will host "Lviv Themes." The exhibit features nearly 40 painting by popular Ukrainian artists that depict Lviv's cityscape and everyday life. Admission is free.

Head to the beautiful countryside near an ancient monastery to camp out and hear Ukrainian folk music at the 2012 Festival Pidkamin'. The five-day festival runs from Wednesday, August 8th till Sunday, August 12th in Pidkamin' village, a couple hours drive from Lviv. Festival Pidkamin' was established in 2007 to promote Ukrainian culture through contemporary folk music and traditional dress.

Headbangers will want to check out the Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival on Friday and Saturday, August 10th and 11th. The open-air musical festival will take place at the recreation complex "Zakhar Berkut" about 6 kilometers from Slav'ske in the Carpathians. Several popular groups will perform folk, pagan and black metal music. The show begins at night and runs until the wee hours of the next morning.