Museum «Drogobychynа» (Villa Bianca), Drohobych
If you will visit the Drohobych , Lviv region, be sure to visit the local museum. Here you are waiting for a surprise: one building with several exhibitions you vidbudetesya.
History museum
Drohobych museum opened back in 1940. Now the museum complex - is actually several museums, bringing together in one structure:
Department of Nature and History was opened in 1941 in the former County Council that the street Franco, 32. During World War II many exhibits Drohobych museum destroyed.
Department of wooden architecture was founded in 1981. Its decoration is a wooden church of St. George and the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross .
In 1992 Drohobych museum reorganized and renamed the Museum "Drohobych". It was also established ethnographic and artistic departments.
In 1996, in the former home of a local deputy mayor Jakub Fayyershtayna, which in Soviet times was located Drohobych Registry Office opened an art gallery.
More recently, in 2005, the museum "Drohobych" was one of the most beautiful baroque buildings of local 20th century - the former home radiologist Jozsef Maria Konopnicka, which placed the Palace of Arts . Also here is the administration of the museum complex.
On the basis of the art department in 2010, was created two divisions - sacred art and European art.
A separate department of a museum "Prison on Stryiska" - former NKVD torture.
Expositions museum
Foundation Museum "Drohobych" has more than 50 000 000 units, all of them are relevant to the different buildings of the museum complex. In general, all these exhibits reflect the history of Drohobych from the Paleolithic to the present.
There is a museum relics monuments of European paintings, ceramics, icons, old books and manuscripts. In particular, the most famous exhibits is born in Drohobych murals, writer and artist Bruno Schulz and treasures Count Lyantskoronsky.
How to get there
By Drohobych can be reached by train from Kyiv , Lviv , Ternopil , Dnipropetrovsk , Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky . The distance to the city is 85 kilometers. Also Drohobych can be reached by bus from Berezhany, Buchach , Rivne , Chernivtsi , Ivano-Frankivsk , Zhytomyr , fork, Coloma, Kamenetz-Podolsk , Stryi, Sambir.
Drohobych museum, more precisely, the Palace of Arts and the administration are at street Shevchenko, 38. There you will be given all the information that you are interested and awake in the right department of the museum.
Hours: 9: 00-17: 00.
