Metropolitan Chambers (Museum of History)

The Museum of the History of Ancient Galich is located in the former. Metropolitan Chambers - an architectural monument of the XVIII century. After the destruction of ancient Galich by the Tatars in the XIII century and the transfer of the capital of Galicia to the Hill, then to Lviv, the former princely detenets remained the residence of the Galician metropolitans. In particular, here was the summer residence of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, with the assistance of whom in 1937 the archaeologist J. Pasternak founded the first museum of ancient Galich. Initially, the exposition of finds from excavations in the village of Kryslos was located in the chapel of St. Basil. In the 1990s, the exposition was moved to the restored premises of the Metropolitan Chambers. Here are the tools of the era of copper, bronze and iron, ancient weapons, in particular, the ancient Russian sword of the prince of the XII century.