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Apteka Museum
The Apteka Museum is located inside a still-functioning pharmacy dating from 1735. Entrance into the eerie pidval (basement) is by request only. You can buy a bottle of iron-rich medicinal wine, if you can bear the temporary tooth discolouration. Ask for ' vino '.
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Lviv Art Gallery
Its buildings are Lviv's strong point, rather than its museums, but it's worth popping your head into one or two of them. The best is the Lviv Art Gallery, which has two wings - one in the lavish Pototsky Palace, the other around the corner on vul Stefanyka. The former houses an impressive collection of European art from the 14th to 18th centuries, including works by Rubens, Bruegel, Goya and Caravaggio. The art is all on the second floor. A tour of the palace's empty but striking ground floor costs an extra 5uah. The wing on vul Stefanyka contains 19th and early 20th-century art, most of it Polish and Russian.
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Lviv History Museum
The Lviv History Museum is split into three dotted around pl Rynok. The best part of this museum is at No 6. Here you can enjoy the Italian-Renaissance inner courtyard and slide around the exquisitely decorated interior. It was also here on 22 December 1686 that Poland and Russia signed the treaty that partitioned Ukraine. No 4 covers 19th- and 20th-century history, including two floors dedicated to the Ukrainian nationalist movement. No 24 expounds on the city's earlier history.
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Lvivske Museum of Beer and Brewing
The oldest still-functioning brewery in Europe turns 300 in 2015, and a tasting tour through the mainly underground facilities is well worth the price of admission. One old storage vault has been turned into a unique beer hall.
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Museum of Ethnography, Arts and Crafts
The Museum of Ethnography, Arts and Crafts has exhibits of furniture, clothing, woodcarvings, ceramics and farming implements that give a basic introduction to Carpathian life. However, the Hutsul folk-art museum in Kolomyya is superior.
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Museum of Folk Architecture and Life
The open-air Museum of Folk Architecture and Life displays different regional styles of farmsteads, windmills, churches and schools. It doesn't hold a candle to Kyiv's Pyrohovo Museum, but it's worth checking out if you're not heading to Kyiv. To get to the museum, take tram 7 or 2 from vul Pidvalna up vul Lychakivska and get off at the corner of vul Mechnykova. From the stop walk ten minutes north on vul Krupyarska, following the signs.
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Museum of Religious History
Attached to the Dominican Cathedral and Monastery and to the left of the entrance is the Museum of Religious History, which was an atheist museum in Soviet times.
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