The Museum of the Prison on Lontskogo is one of Lviv's most sobering museums, housed in a former prison used by successive twentieth-century regimes. Its cells, corridors, photographs, and testimony deal with political repression, occupation, and the people held here.
This is not light sightseeing, and it is better approached with time and attention. The museum adds essential context to Lviv's beautiful streets by showing the violence and surveillance that also shaped the city's modern history.