Furniture and Porcelain Museum in Lviv

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Open daily except Mondays from 11.00 to 17.30.

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The Museum of furniture and porcelain заснованго in 1977. The Fund of Museum counts 680 pieces, 5000 exhibits Fund hood. metal, 11 000 exhibits porcelain, pottery and art glass. The Museum speculators on decorative-applied art. The Museum is a branch of the Museum of Ethnography and crafts, ETC NAS of Ukraine. This is the only Museum of furniture in Ukraine.

The funds of the Museum are long since started to form since the founding in 1874 Lviv industrial Museum.

The concept of the Museum, which he was to be a kind of sample collection, have influenced the character of the Assembly, which is dominated by singular objects representing the main stylistic trends inherent in the development of decorative art in Europe from the 16th to the early 20th century To the Museum colecchi also works in Western Ukrainian Lviv furniture. From November 1977 the collection is exhibited in the former Palace of Prince Lubomirski address Market square, 10.

Many of the exhibits come from the Hutsul region, which was an important centre of art processing of metal on Ukrainian territory, in the XIX - beginning of XX century.

The Museum features a large collection of porcelain, faience, majolica and glass art, consisting of more than 11 thousand xponet, diverse in styles, time and place of manufacturing, material and methods of decoration. The chronological framework of this meeting cover the period from the 16th to early 20th century.

In the exposition there are also works from Denmark, Italy, Spain, Holland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and China, Japan and Iran.