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The Lviv Historical Museum was founded in 1893. Its earliest collection was not numerous and comprised municipal and guild memorabilia, archival materials, private gifts. The first house of the museum was a small room in the archive department of the Town Hall. The first director of the Historical Museum of Lviv was Oleksandr Cholovsky, famous researcher, scholar, collector.
In 1908 the magistracy bought a stone mansion in 6 Rynok Square popularly known as the Korniakt Palazzo and allocated it for Jan III National Museum.
In 1918 the Historical Museum of Lviv collection of some five thousand exhibits was relocated here. It was only in 1926 that the Historical Museum of Lviv got a building of its own, when the city administration bought for its purposes the so-called black stone mansion in 4 Rynok Square, a unique sixteen-century architectural monument.
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On May 8, 1940, the Historical Museum merged to form the Lviv Historical Museum.
Stocks collection of newformed museum were enriched by the separate collections of the former Lviv's museum: Museum named for Princes Liubomyrskys, Museum of the Stavropihiysky Institute, Museum of Scientific Society named by Taras Shevchenko.
In 1947 the ancient stone mansion in 24 Rynok Square was transferred to the Lviv Historical Museum.
On May 18, 1981, the museum opened its Arsenal Museum department within the walls of the former town arsenal - a renovated sixteenth century architectural monument.
Unique museum collections number well over 330,000 museum pieces. All collections form thirty two stock groups such as an enormous collection of unearthed artifacts, a numismatic collection, collection of graphic art, medals and orders, paintings, manuscripts and ancient books dating from the XII - XVIII-th centuries.
Its expositions and exhibits draw some 400,000 visitors annually.
The museum's prized collections earned it renown in many countries the world over. Museum exhibitions or its separate exhibits have been displayed in Krakow, Warsaw, Vienna, Prague, Paris, London, Montreal, New York and else where.
The Lviv Historical Museum of today is a treasury of not only Ukrainian cultural heritage, but also of the heritage of many European peoples.
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