The first exposition was opened in the museum 6 November, 1973. It's located in the former building of the local country office and the court (built in 1789 on the ruins of the prince's palace in the Lutsk castle). The core of the exposition is a collection of artworks by the local and foreign masters gathered from the state and private collections. There are also the works from Volyn region.

The most valuable part of the collection consists of Western European and Polish paintings of the 17th — early 20th centuries. You can observe there canvases by Frans Snyders, Jusepe de Ribera, Manjask and Francesco Londonio, Josef Grassi and Heinrich Hollpein, Nicolas Poussin, Jacques Courtois (le Bourgignon), Ary Scheffer, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Jan Mateyko, Leopold Loeffler and other famous painters, whose artworks are extremely rare to find in Ukrainian museums.

The other quite remarkable section displays the paintings of Russian and Ukrainian artists from the second half of the 19th century to the early 20th. You can see there the works of such seascape masters as Ivan Aivazovsky and Rufin Sudkovsky, subject painters Lukian Popov and Kirill Lemokh, city landscapes by Havryl Ostapenko, nature landscapes by Vladimir Orlovsky and Fotij Krasytsky.

The museum also holds a collection of paintings by Andronyk Lazarchuk, who came from Volyn and graduated from Saint-Petersburgh Art Academy. Among those, are subject paintings, portraits, self-portraits and landscapes. All the works of the master are dated back to the late 19th — early 20th centuries, and now they are considered the gems of the whole museum collection.

Not the largest, but still a pretty interesting part of the museum is a sculpture collection — the portraits of Fryderyk Chopin and, Pope Pius X, everyday and religious scenes made of gypsum, bronze, marble and alabaster.

The newest part of exposition was created in 2003 — the Ukrainian portrait of the 16-18th centuries. It consists mainly of the items from a private collection of the family of Radziwills (powerful Polish magnates) taken from their castle in Olytsya. The canvases there vary in their level of artistic professionalism and are created by the unknown artists or court painters of the Radziwills (B. Zinevych, K. Heske, etc).

The museum workers put a lot of efforts in expanding the current collection, which now counts about 2000 items (paintings — 988, graphics — 903, sculptures — 69). Nowadays the museum is considered to be the artistic and cultural centre of Lutsk as a place where exhibitions of classical and modern artists are regularly held, temporary specialized exhibitions from the local collection are organized and a variety of cultural events is hosted (evenings with contemporary artists, classical concerts, etc).

10:00-19:00 (winter — 10:00-17:00)
Monday, Tuesday — closed.

Adults — 10 UAH.
Students, pupils — 5 UAH.

Adults — 50 UAH.
Students, pupils — 30 UAH.

Lutsk city
Kafedralna St., 1-a (Lutsk castle)

Tel.: +38 (0332) 72-30-75

By public transport
Go by train or bus to Lutsk city. The museum is located within Lutsk castle.
More information about public transport.

By car
In the city, go to the beginning of the Avenue of Freedom (local name — Prospekt Voli ), then go along the street of B. Khmelnytsky—D. Halytsky untill the left turn to Bratkovsky street. From there, turn to Kafedralna street which is the second left turn.