National Museum of Lviv

The National Museum and Gallery of Lviv is one of Ukraine's largest museums.

The initial collection was founded privately in 1905 by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptyts'kyi, when it was originally named "The Church Museum". Icon-paintings of which there are at least 4000 of form an important part of the collection as does folk sacral sculpture. A set of Ukrainian folk and professional engravings dating back to the 17th and 18th century's are of great value to the museum from a Ukrainian cultural viewpoint and there are over 1000 in this department [ [http://www.lvivbest.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-93-page-1.html Lvivbest.com] , Retrieved on June 13 2008] . The museum has paintings by artists such as Johann Georg Pinsel, Maciej Polejowski, Michał Filewicz and others.

The National Museum of Lviv also has a number of important manuscripts, some of them very rare such as Cracow publications by Schweipolt Fiol (1491-1493), Prague and Vienna printings by Francysk Skaryna, and virtually all of Ivan Fedorov's publications.

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