The Museum of the Volyn Icon in Lutsk, a department of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, opened in August 1993. It is a unique and exceptional museum in Ukraine, representing the distinctive regional school of Volyn icon painting. The collection of the museum includes more than 1.5 thousand monuments of sacred art, namely more than 600 icons of the XVI-XIX centuries, metal objects (robes of icons, church utensils, icons), decorative carvings (royal gates, kiosks of icons) and sculpture. The creation of the collection is associated with the name of the famous Ukrainian art critic Pavlo Zholtovsky (1904-1986), who led the scientific expeditions of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore in the 1980s to study and collect historical and cultural monuments in the temples of Volyn. The priceless pearl of the collection is the Kholm Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God, a unique monument of Byzantine art of the XI-XII centuries, one of the most revered Christian shrines.
In the exposition you can see the works of Yov Kondzelevich: doorposts of deacons and royal gates of 1696, icons “Savior Almighty” and “St. George”, fragments of the prophetic series of the Iconostasis. They enchant with tonal richness, harmony and brightness of colors, picturesque warmth of images, impeccably constructed compositions. The museum exhibits original samples of decorative carvings and sculptures of Volhynia of the XVIII century. It is the royal gate “Tree of Jesse”, figures of angels and saints. A separate hall of the museum is dedicated to the Kholm Miraculous Icon of the Mother of God, where not only excursions but also services are held. In a cozy hall, you can stay alone with the shrine – museum staff will always give you such an opportunity.
The Museum of the Volyn Icon is known in Ukraine and abroad not only for its interesting exposition but also for its scientific, research and organizational work. Every year scientific conferences on Volyn icon painting are held on the basis of the museum.
Mon-Fri
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Days off: Wednesday, Saturday
Sun
10 a. m. – 5 p.m.
50 UAH for adults
30 UAH for children, students, pensioners
Address: Serhiy Tymoshenko Street, 5
Tel: +38 (066) 834-21-14
We invite you to visit the main tourist site of Lutsk – a medieval castle of the XIV century. It won first place in the category “castles” of the All-Ukrainian competition “Seven Wonders of Ukraine: castles, palaces, fortresses”.
Mision of the museum is to create museum institution of the highest level that changes past, reflects present and creates future to develop the nation spirituality and promote Ukrainian art in the world. Here you can see the largest painting in the world – “Cosmogony”, covering an area of over 2000 square meters.
The Chortoryiski princes Tower is the only one of the 8 towers of the Lutsk Lower (Okolnyi) Castle that has survived to this day. The Museum space «Okolnyi Castle» is a modern historical part of the defensive structure of Lutsk from the 14th – 17th centuries. The Upper Lutsk Castle was rebuilt from wooden fortifications to stone ones between the late 14th and 15th centuries. The first line of defensive of the Upper Castle, the Okolnyi Castle, began its transformation in the early 16th century, when wooden towers were gradually replaced with stone structures.
In addition to the above-ground city, Lutsk has an extensive network of underground tunnels. The two levels of the underground city housed sacred objects, a refectory, a prison, and tombs. There are many legends about the unique two-level underground complex, the entrance to which is located beneath the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul. Their height is particularly impressive, reaching almost 8 meters in some places.
Lutheran church (now Baptist) in Lutsk an architectural monument, located on Karaimska Street, 1 in the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Old Lutsk”.
The Museum Space «Okolnyi Castle» is a new tourist attraction created on the basis of restored architectural monuments of national importance: the Chortoryiski princes tower with part of the defensive wall and the Jesuit Monastery with its dungeons.
