Metadata: Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького
- Postal address:
- Prospekt Svobody 20, 79000, Lviv
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 235-8846
- Web address:
- http://nm.lviv.ua
- Email:
- nml_schept@ukr.net
- Title:
- Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv
- Title (official language):
- Національний музей у Львові імені Андрея Шептицького
- Creator/accumulator:
- Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv
- Date(s):
- 1812/1939
- Language:
- Polish
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Extent:
- approx. 200 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
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Materials of special interest to Jewish history and culture are to be found in the following two storage groups:
1) The Latin Manuscripts group includes copies of writs issued by the King of Saxony and Duke of Warsaw Frederick Augustus: one (dated 26 January 1812) vesting the merchant Jaroslaw-Joseph Schwartzman with certain estate privileges, another (dated 3 February 1812) setting conditions for Jewish merchants’ purchase and sale of salt from Sambor; a fragment, donated to the museum by Metropolitan Sheptytsky in 1920, preserved from a Torah scroll that had otherwise been destroyed in a fire, from one of the synagogues of Lwów; etc.
2) The Negatives group contains a considerable collection of photograph negatives, mainly on glass, made in 1920-39 by the photographers Rodosskii, Zbigniew Hornung, and Jozef Piotrowski and depicting, among other things, Jewish subjects: the buildings and interiors of synagogues in Lwów (including fragments of the courtyard and facade of the Golden Rose) and other cities and villages of Galicia (Baranów, Bełz, Brzozdowce, Brody, Buchacz, Bursztyn, Wybranówka, Gwoździec, Gliniany, Gródek, Husiatyn, Dobromił, Dynów, Żółkiew, Zborów, Krakowiec, Krystynopol, Łańcut, Leszniów, Lesko, Luboml, Monasterzyska, Przemyśl, Przemyślany, Podhajce, Przeworsk, Rymanów, Sieniawa (now Sokolіvka), Strzeliska, Tarnopol, Tyśmienica, Felsztyn, Chodorów, Grzymałów, Skałat, Sokole, Sanka, Szczerzec, Jaworów, Jazłowiec, and Janów); Jewish cemeteries and individual tombstones in Baranów, Leżajsk, Rohatyn, and Jaworów; and Jewish ritual items housed at the King Jan III Sobieski Museum (now the Lviv Historical Museum).
The Negatives group also contains a collection of photo-negatives on glass that includes ethnographic “types” of Jews recorded in the early 20th century by the ethnographer, commentator, and public figure Volodymyr Shukhevych (1849-1915); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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This museum was founded in February 1905 by the Greek Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky; it was based on the Metropolitan Chancellery’s Ecclesiastical and Archaeological Museum, which had been in operation since 1894. Originally called the Ecclesiastical Museum, it was renamed (December 1909) the Metropolitan Count Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum. On 13 December 1913, at the official opening of an exhibition organized by Illarion Sventsitsky, invited by Metropolitan Sheptytsky to become the museum’s first director, the museum was made a public organisation for the benefit of the Ukrainian people. Most of the museum’s collection consisted of Sheptytsky’s donated icons, manuscripts, early-print publications, archaeological and ethnographic materials, etc. Illarion Sventsitsky maintained contact with the well-known Judaica collector and co-founder of the Jewish Museum in Lemberg/Lwów Maximilian Goldstein, who repeatedly donated items from his collection to the museum.
Upon the Soviet annexation of Western Ukraine, the museum was merged (on 3 January 1940) with the Lviv Gallery to form the Lviv State Art Gallery, and was supplemented with collections of local museums and organisations that had been reorganised and/or liquidated by the Soviet authorities. In particular, the museum now received a large collection of photo-negatives of landmarks of architecture and culture, including Jewish ones, from the city’s Conservation Administration (the monument preservation department).
The museum underwent two further name changes in the Soviet period: in 1944, it became known as the Lviv State Museum of Ukrainian Art, and in 1965, the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art. In 1991, upon the declaration of Ukrainian independence, its official title became the National Museum in Lviv. The Scientific and Art Fond of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptitsky; and in 2005 it acquired the status of a national institution, and its current title.
The museum currently holds one of the largest collections of fine art in Ukraine, including the over 122,000 items of the main fond (which, among other things, contains written sources and photo documents) and the approximately 52,000 archival storage units of the reference fond.
- Access points: locations:
- Bełz
- Brody
- Brzozdowce
- Bursztyn
- Chodorów
- Dobromil
- Dynów
- Felsztyn
- Gliniany
- Gródek
- Grzymałów
- Gwoździec
- Husiatyn
- Jaworów
- Jazłowiec
- Krakowiec
- Krystynopol
- Lańcut
- Lesko
- Leszniów
- Leżajsk
- Luboml
- Lwów
- Monasterzyska
- Podhajce
- Przemysl
- Przemyślany
- Przeworsk
- Rymanów
- Sambor
- Sieniawa
- Skalat
- Sokole
- Strzeliska
- Szczerzec
- Tarnopol
- Tyśmienica
- Wybranówka
- Zborow
- Żółkiew
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hornung, Zbigniew
- Piotrowski, Jozef
- Rodosskii
- Schwartzman, Jaroslaw-Joseph
- Shukhevych, Volodymyr
- System of arrangement:
- The museum’s exhibit items are in a single fonds; they are arranged by storage group in accordance with the materials kept in them.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories, collection lists and card catalogues are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
