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The National Museum of Lviv is one of the most remarkable museums in Ukraine. Its collection numbers about 130 thousand exhibits.

The special appeal of the museum is a collection of icon paintings consisting of four thousand items. Also of importance is the collection of folk sacral sculpture which is unmatched in terms of number and artistic value of exhibits. The museum is also home to some masterpieces by world-level artists such as Pinzel, Poleyovsky, and Filevych. The collection of manuscripts and old printed books also deserves special attention.

The museum’s building at 42 Drahomanova Street houses the expositions of modern Ukrainian art. They demonstrate the wide range of prominent masters who were at the vanguard of culture and art in the early 20^th century. The exposition opens with the works by Trush, Novakivsky, Kulchytska, and Parashchuk, which fully reflect the recent aesthetic searches of the European culture of the beginning of the past century.

The 20-year-long interwar period is widely represented in the exposition by works of well-known Ukrainian artists including the Selsky spouses, Monastyrsky, Krychevsky, Muzyka, and Moroz. The next sections of the exposition represent the post-war art, including Socialist Realism and the painters of the 60s. The latter’s height of creative activity coincided, on the one hand, with the period of so-called “thaw”, and on the other, with strict censorship and persecution by the totalitarian system. The collection is supplemented by modern works by Lviv artists of late 20^th century.

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