Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького | |
 Main building on Svobody Avenue | |
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| Established | 1905 |
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| Location | Lviv |
| Founder | Andrey Sheptytsky |
| Director | Ihor Kozhan |
| Website | nml |
| Official name | Міський промисловий музей (City Industrial Museum) |
| Type | Architecture |
| Reference no. | 5268-Лв |
TheAndrey Sheptytsky National Museum ofLviv (Ukrainian:Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького) is one ofUkraine's largest museums, dedicated toUkrainian culture in all its manifestations. It was established byMetropolitan ArchbishopAndrey Sheptytsky in 1905 and was originally known as theLwow Ecclesiastical Museum. It currently bears Sheptytsky's name.
The founder donated some 10,000 items to the museum and raised the funds required for its maintenance. An extravagantNeo-Baroque villa was acquired to house the collections.
AfterWorld War II, the museum was renamed theLviv Museum of Ukrainian Art. The collection was augmented by adding a number of exhibits confiscated from other Lviv museums. By the late 20th century, the museum's holdings of Ukrainianicons andfolk art were the largest in the country.
The National Museum now occupies the ornate building of the formerLviv Industrial Museum, which housed the Lenin Museum in Soviet times. A cluster of memorial houses and theSokalshchina Museum inChervonohrad are affiliated with the National Museum.
During the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, works were removed from display for safety; they included theBohorodchany iconostasis.[1][2] The curator of books and manuscripts,Anna Naurobska, described the importance of the collections, as: “This is our story; this is our life. It is very important to us.”[3]
Nowadays the funds of the museum contain over 100,000 items, representing centuries-old traditions of development of Ukrainian art and national culture. It has four permanent exhibitions: "Old Ukrainian Art"; "Art of the 19th to the Beginning of the 20th Century"; "Ukrainian Art of the 20th Century"; "Folk Art", with 1,800 objects on display.[2] It also hosts temporary exhibitions.
The museum boasts the greatest and most magnificent collection of middle-age Ukrainian sacred art of the 12th–18th centuries, including 4000 icons, sculptures, manuscripts (including the Horodyshche or Buchach Gospel), etc. Most lavishly represented in the collection of the museum are icons from the 14th–18th centuries, mainly from Western Ukraine. It is known that Illarion Swiecki came to the village of Mshanets, Boykiv, to personally take some of the older icons from the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin to the museum.
The Ukrainian renaissance and baroque periods are represented by the works ofIvan Rutkovych (the Zhovkva iconostasis of the 17th century) and Jov Kondzelevich (the Bogorodchansky iconostasis, 1698–1705).[2]
There is a precious collection of Ukrainian prints of the 17th–18th centuries (about 1000 pieces).[4]
The museum has paintings by artists such asJohann Georg Pinsel,Ivan Rutkovych,Serhii Vasylkivsky,Antin Manastyrsky,Ivan Trush,Olena Kulchytska,Mykhailo Boychuk,Jakiw Hnizdowskyj,Oleksa Hryshchenko,Liuboslav Hutsaliuk,Vasyl Krychevsky,Michał Filewicz,Józefat Ignacy Łukasiewicz,Pyotr Ilyich Bilan,Oleksa Novakivskyi,Ivan Trush,Oleksandr Murashko andTaras Shevchenko and others.
The National Museum of Lviv also has a number of important manuscripts, some of them very rare such as Cracow publications bySchweipolt Fiol (1491–1493),Prague andVienna printings byFrancysk Skaryna, and virtually all ofIvan Fedorov's publications.
Scientific and Artistic Foundation of themetropolitan bishopAndrey Sheptytsky.
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