Museum of Ideas in Lviv

In the central part of the old town, on the grounds of the defensive complex, in the cellars of the Bernardine Monastery, the Museum of Ideas was founded. It was opened in 1992 by the Lviv artist Oles Dzyndra. The museum became the main venue for a variety of cultural and artistic events, symposiums, exhibitions and festivals. Now it has several permanent projects:

• “Lviv — the Capital of Crafts” — a festival at which artisans present their work to Lviv.
• “SkloKoko” — a place. Where the works of masters working in the technique of blown glass are presented.
• “Bernardengarden” — a venue for plein air sessions and symposiums of fine and plein air art.
• “LeoPoltvis” — an initiative project that calls attention to and urges the necessary measures to save the Poltva River, which flows through Lviv.
• “KinoLev” — an annual festival of independent cinema, held to promote Ukrainian cinema and support Ukrainian directors.
• “Sviatosnih” — a festival of snow sculpture, whose aim is the revival of festivals of ice and snow sculpture.

Photo from the website ilvivyanyn.com

Thanks to the museum, many civic and cultural projects have been realized that became known not only in Ukraine, but also in the world.

Interesting facts:

• More than 800 art exhibitions have been held at the museum.
• The museum is one of the founders of the Jagiellonian Fair in Lublin.
• The Museum of Ideas has a Trapezna Idei, where visitors are offered more than 100 Galician dishes. It came about unexpectedly because sponsors refused to receive foreign guests at the festival. The organizers had to prepare something for the guests themselves.

Opening hours: from 10 to 19:00 (on Saturday and Sunday from 12:00)