Description of the attraction
The Museum of European Art in the Potocki Palace is not only a famous architectural monument, but also one of the most beautiful buildings in Lviv. The palace was built by the architect Ludwig van Werny in 1880 by order of the Polish magnates Potocki.
The palace has a magnificent view, its architecture resembles French castles in the style of classicism. Three floors of the palace with mansards are made of bricks covered with plaster and richly decorated with stucco, balustrades, and small sculptures. The interior rooms look no less impressive - stucco molding, gilding, inlaid with precious stones, the use of expensive varieties of natural wood, painting - all this makes the state rooms simply magnificent. The design of the palace also envisioned places for "parking" carriages and halls for meeting guests. Until 1879, there was a huge park around the palace, but later the street was built up with numerous buildings, and today the view of the Potocki palace remained open only from one side.
After the war, the palace was given over to the needs of the Institute of Geology. And since 1974, the Palace of solemn events (or, more simply, the Lviv city registry office) has operated here. In 2000, the Lviv Art Gallery opened its expositions in the Potocki Palace. The exposition "European art of the 16th-18th centuries" is open here, which includes a solid collection of art samples from European countries. On the first floor of the museum, you can admire the chic interiors and samples of antique furniture that have survived to our times. The Mirror Hall deserves no less attention.
The doors of the museum are hospitably open every day except Mondays. On weekends, you can meet many wedding corteges who come here for a photo shoot. And brides in long dresses gracefully glide through the halls, involuntarily recalling the times when luxurious receptions were given in these halls.
