The museum presents works of national schools of Spain, Italy, Flanders, France, Austria, Germany, England and Poland from the period of 17 – first third of 20 centuries. In the section of Ukrainian and Russian art of the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries, visitor can get acquainted with the basic ways of the development of artistic culture of this period, as well as with many bright creative personalities. In this oasis of art, you can see works by Ivan Aivazovsky, Nicolas Poussin, Frans Snyders, Jusepe de Ribera and even Lucas Cranach the Elder! A separate section is paintings by Andronik Lazarchuk — native of Volyn, who studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.
In 2003 a new exposition of an ancient Ukrainian portrait was created. It was based on works originating from the Radziwill Princes’ Castle in Olyka. The canvases are different in artistic level, made mostly by unknown or court masters of the Radziwill dynasty.
Nowadays museum often hosts exhibitions, workshops, creative evenings and presentations.
Wednesday – Sunday
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Days off: Monday, Tuesday
Tickets
70 UAH for adults
50 UAH for children, students, pensioners
Address: Kafedralna street, 1а
Phone number: +38 (0332) 723 075
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.
