History of the museum of the Truskavets resort town

The building of this museum is a historical monument, built at the dawn of the twentieth century in the Art Nouveau style combined with “historicism” and Moorish architecture. In those distant times, the Polish family of Rozwadowski decided to build the Sariusz Resort Villa, which began to receive holidaymakers in 1901.

In 1980, in order to preserve this masterpiece of architecture, the deputies of the Lviv Regional Council granted the status of an architectural monument to the former resort villa. In 1981 and in 2008, this status was confirmed by the relevant decisions of the Truskavets City Council.

The former villa now houses a museum, which can significantly expand your knowledge and understanding of the history of Truskavets from its origins to the present day.

The museum itself was founded back in Soviet times on 29 December 1982. The city’s enterprises and sanatoriums actively contributed to its creation.

The first period of the museum’s activity was filled with propaganda of the Soviet government and the Communist Party. Despite being ideologically driven, the museum displayed the main milestones in Truskavets’ history, which aroused interest among holidaymakers.

After Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, the Truskavets Resort Museum began a new era of activity. The museum staff’s research and local history work was primarily aimed at reviving and highlighting the white spots in Truskavets’ history and culture, as well as the activities of prominent residents of the city, in museum exhibitions. The Lviv Historical Museum provided significant assistance in the museum’s renovation.

Over the years of independence, the museum’s exposition has been significantly replenished with photographs and documents, new cartographic materials, household and cultural items, clothing and weapons, etc.

Exposition of the local museum

Today, the museum has 7 exhibition halls. The museum’s current exposition tells about the history and life of medieval Truskavets in princely times and during the Polish Kingdom, modern Truskavets in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and interwar Poland, when it became a famous European resort, Soviet Truskavets and the development of the resort during Ukraine’s independence.

In 2012, the museum’s basement was converted into a thematic exhibition hall called the Insurgent’s Hiding Place. This kind of “museum within a museum” was opened on the eve of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the UPA. In the basement of the museum, the museum staff managed to recreate the life and everyday life of the fighters for Ukrainian independence in the 1940s and 1950s.

In addition to the exhibition space, the Truskavets Museum has two exhibition halls, which are filled with various art and local history exhibitions. In addition, the Museum of the History of Truskavets has a large lecture hall, where cultural and educational events are regularly organised.

The Museum of the Truskavets Resort City is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.