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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 4 (178), 936—944

UDK 069.61 (477.83-25) “1939/1941”

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.04.936

REORGANIZATION OF Lviv MUSEUMS in 1939—1940: PREREQUISITES, PROCESS, CONSEQUENCES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF Lviv HISTORICAL MUSEUM)

KHAVALKO Svitlana

Abstract. After the arrival of Soviet power in Lviv in September 1939, the museum sphere was reorganized: out of 25 museums in the city only 6 remained. Ukrainian national museum institutions, private museum foundations, some collections of scientific institutions and religious congregations were liquidated: the museum of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh ). Based on the museum collections of the Historical Museum of the city of Lviv and the liquidated National Museum named after During the reign of King Jan III (1908-1939), the Lviv Historical Museum was created, where individual parts of the collections of the liquidated museums were transferred.

An archaeological collection, part of the phalerological collection, pottery, a collection of drawings and watercolors on the theme of the Talerhof concentration camp, and some items related to the events of the First World War were transferred from the Museum of the National Academy of Sciences to the Lviv Historical Museum. From the Military Historical Museum, photos of the Ukrainian Sich riflemen, chaplains of the UGA, important events, military operations, a set of photos representing the activities of Plast in the 1920s and 1930s, impressions of seals from 1918, military items, flags, drawings by Osyp Kurylas were transferred, Lev Gets, Mykhailo Havrylko, Leonid Perfetsky, paintings by P. Kholodny, Yu. Pankevich, I. Ivanets.

From the museum of the Stavropygius Institute, the Lviv Historical Museum now houses a part of the collection of portrait paintings of prominent figures of Lviv, a unique collection of 11 coffin portraits, about 270 pieces of valuable old prints of the 16th and 18th centuries and 150 handwritten Gospels of the 16th century.

1,270 units of various types of cold and firearms, details of military uniforms, elements of weapons and horse equipment were transferred from the liquidated Museum named after the Princes of Lubomyrsky to the Lviv Historical Museum. Part of the numismatic collection, orders and medals, seals, ebbs and seals, clocks, furniture, historical paintings, pictorial portraits, awards, silver memorabilia, about 220 portraits of the XVII—XX centuries.

Museum reorganization fundamentally influenced the development of the museum business and changed the model of interaction between the museum and society for decades to come. The liquidation of Ukrainian museums and the loss of numerous original monuments of national importance caused irreparable damage to Ukrainian historical heritage.

Keywords: museum, transfer, collection, monument, liqui­dation.

Received 10.07.2024

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