City Museum in Lviv
While preparing the exhibition “Hero’s Journey. The Last Week of Summer”, we learned a lot about how children from different generations have been building their relationship with the city for the last 50 years. And how do modern children perceive it? To explore this, the City Museum has launched a joint project involving younger Lviv […]
the space where everyone can join the development of the first exhibition of the City Museum — The Hero’s Journey. The Last Week of Summer. The Hero’s Journey. The Last Week of Summer — an exhibition about how children explore the city. The pathways and trajectories of our urban routes in childhood shape our city […]
Is there anything to remember, and nothing to tell your parents? Can you still store an old slingshot or a brick from a neighboring building in the attic? On Friday, in the dungeon of Lviv City Hall (Rynok Square, 1), the City Museum opened the “Laboratory of Childhood”. We have completely re-equipped the premises for […]
On Tuesday, October 13, everyone will be able to visit the renovated premises of the City Museum located in the dungeon of Lviv City Hall. Until recently, the space was inaccessible to visitors due to renovations, but this time visitors will be able to visit the dungeon before the opening of the first exhibition there. […]
Are you 10-12 years old? Become a participant of the project for schoolchildren “When parents were children” We invite you to create your own project based on an interview with your parents about how they learned and explored the city on their own at the age of 10-12. Each story-memory can be supplemented with photos, […]
In July 2019, the team of the City Museum received a grant from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation to implement a project that involves the participatory creation of the concept of the debut exhibition. The work on the concept will be based on the use of interdisciplinary and participatory principles, i.e. the involvement of specialized communities, […]
People not only build cities but also bring them into motion. Someone hurries to somewhere, runs, drives, someone waits for one, and someone stops all of that to fix. We decided to show to the citizens and guests of Lviv this unnoticed dynamics of the city, which becomes visible while observation for motion fixedly. On […]
Glazed balconies, plastic windows, insulated facades, self-built additions to apartments in residential buildings and many other examples of unauthorized changes, completed within the city’s historical heritage area, have been embodied in the satirical illustrations of Oksana Vaskiv. The questions about the role and responsibility of the city residents in this destructive process were sought to […]
The Pop Up Museum is an one-day museum created by local residents. Each participant brings in an object, creates its description, and shares a short story of personal memories about the object. The topic of our first Pop Up Museum was stop / play / repeat, dedicated to the audio and video equipment of 90s. […]
The project Museum That Does Not Exist Yet aimed to introduce Lviv residents to the space and potential content of the museum, which is in the active phase of planning and creation. One of the project’s goals was to test the working concept of the museum. Visitors were asked to express their opinions about what […]
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