Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, National art museum in Lviv, Ukraine

The Borys Voznytskyi Gallery is a national art museum in Lviv housed in a grand building at the city's center. It holds paintings, sculptures, and decorative artworks spanning from medieval times to the present, covering many artistic traditions and styles.

The Lviv magistrate decided in 1897 to create a city picture gallery, and it opened on 14 February 1907 after the purchase of Jan Jakowicz's collection of about 400 paintings. In 1914 it moved into the palace on Ossolińskich Street (now Stefanyka), bought from historian Władysław Łoziński. Under Soviet rule from 1940 it absorbed the Lubomirski, Ossolineum and Baworowski collections; it was named national in 2009 and took Borys Voznytskyi's name in 2013.

The gallery's name honours Borys Voznytskyi, its long-serving director, and since 2013 it has officially carried his name. Its departments are arranged by national school, from Italian and Spanish to Polish and Far Eastern art, so a visit traces how works crossed borders. A 2012 donation of about 30 paintings by 15 contemporary Italian artists created a permanent display of modern Italian work.

The main building at Stefanyka 3 holds European art of the 19th and 20th centuries; older European painting from the 14th to 18th centuries is shown separately in the Potocki Palace on Kopernika 15. The gallery also runs branches elsewhere in Lviv and beyond, including the Boim Chapel and the castles of Olesko, Zolochiv, Pidhirtsi and Zhovkva, so check which site you want before setting out. The entrance is at the base of the central bay, up a low curving stone ramp.

On 29 April 1992, thieves set off a smoke grenade in the gallery and cut three paintings from their frames: Jan Matejko's "Battle of Vienna" and two works by Artur Grottger. Dmytro Shelest and Yaroslav Volchak were shot dead trying to stop them; the crime was never solved and the case closed in 2010.