History
Museums in the Brody Raion have old traditions. Those traditions are found in the collections of the Pidhirtsi Castle (the 17th-18th centuries), the collections of Count Vladimir Dzedushyckiy at his estate in the village of Penyaki (the end of the 19th century), a private museum of pictures and ancient furniture of a castle palace proprietress in Brody, Countess Zhyshchevska (the beginning of 20th century), and others. Unfortunately, as a result of military activities and social cataclysms those collections were nebulized to different cities and museums of Ukraine and other countries. A lot of priceless artifacts were lost beyond retrieval.
The first district museum in Brody (district, meaning raion or regional) was created at the end of 1950s. It was a one-story house on the street of Velyki Filvarky. Collections of numismatists, plain weapons, ceremonial objects, saved in the museum, document the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century ethnography of region. At the end of 1960s to beginning 1970s, however, the exhibition was closed down and a considerable part of the exhibits disappeared. Soon the construction of a musical school began in the place of the museum.
In 1979 several apartments of the 18th century building, in the walls of which from 1866 to 1939 was located Brody powiat government, were passed to occupy the museum. Between 1980-1984 a display was created and collection of exhibits passed. The opening of the new Brody Raion Museum that took place in September 1984 fell within the framework of celebrating the 900 anniversary of the first written reference of the Brody settlement. At first the establishment operated as a folk museum, and from April 1, 1991 became a department of the Lviv Historical Museum. On March 29, 2001, based on the Brody Raion Department of History and Ethnography of the Lviv Historical Museum, there was created the Brody Raion Museum of History and Ethnography.
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