Museum of Fine Arts
The Lviv Art Gallery is the largest and the richest museum in Ukraine. Today the museum complex is composed of 24 buildings and 15 museums; its area amounts to more than 50 hectares. The Lviv Art Gallery is the largest and the richest museum in Ukraine. Today the museum complex is composed of 24 buildings and 15 museums; its area amounts to more than 50 hectares (that is more than the area of all of Kyiv’s museums combined). In the Soviet Union, the gallery’s collection was ranked third in terms of its importance and value after the museums in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
The most valuable collections include the works of European artists, sculptures, portraits, icons and furniture. The museum holds rare and important collections of works of Austrian and Polish painters.
The gallery includes complexes of the Oleskiy, Zolochivskiy and Pidhoretsky castles, the chapel of the Boim family, the Pinzel Museum, Book Museum, Rusalka Dnistrova Museum, Shashkevych Museum and County Estate, Pyatnychanska Vezha Museum of Defense Architecture and the Museum of Ancient Lviv Memorials.