Ivan Trush Art Memorial Museum is a museum institution of artistic and memorial direction, a branch of the Andrei Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv, the exposition of the museum is dedicated to the person and work of the outstanding Ukrainian artist, art critic, editor, cultural and public figure Ivan Trush (1869—1941).

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The art and memorial museum was created in the house of I. Trusha, located on the street that bears the name of the artist. Here Ivan Trush lived with his family until his death (1910—1941).

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On July 5, 1910, Ariadna and Ivan Trushi purchased a plot of land with a total area of 913 square meters on the outskirts of the city, in Francivka, for the construction of their own home. In the same year, a two-story building was erected according to the project of the famous Ukrainian architect Alexander Lushpinsky in the style of the late Secession. The villa featured asymmetrical facades and a one-story wooden porch in the style of folk architecture, attached to the west wing. The house was surrounded by a private area, the arrangement of which the artist was engaged in by himself, decorating the landscape with rare tree species, favorite pines, varieties of Crimean and Carpathian flowers. An alpine slide was artfully laid out in the lower part of the garden.

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The house became a place of fruitful work and frequent meetings of the artist with like-minded people and friends: M. Hrushevsky, I. Frankom, M. Mochulskyj, V. Stefanik, O. Rozdolsky, I. Sventzitsky and many other famous figures of Ukrainian culture. The street where the Trushev family lived was formed at the beginning of the 20th century and was called Obvodnaya. In 1946, in honor of Ivan Trush, she was given the name of the artist.

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On the initiative of the artist's wife and daughter on March 20, 1951, a memorial exhibition of his works was opened in the creative workshop of Ivan Trush. In this way, the intelligentsia of the city honored the memory of the artist on the tenth anniversary of his death.

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In 1962, the memorial museum of I. Trusha, which functioned on a public basis. The first and only employee of the museum at that time was the daughter of the artist Ariadna Ivanovna Trush.

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In 1986, the artist's descendants gave the house to the Ukrainian people to create a museum. On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the artist's birth, in 1989, the Ivan Trush Art Memorial Museum opened its doors to visitors. On the facade of the building there is a memorial plaque, made in bronze, with a bas-relief portrait of Ivan Trush and the inscription: “The outstanding Ukrainian artist Ivan Trush lived and worked in this house from 1910 to 1941” (sculptor - J. Sadovskyi, architect — V. Stonecutter).

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The exposition of the art and memorial museum presents the main pages of the life and work of Ivan Trush, presents the painter as a prominent Ukrainian impressionist, author of genre compositions, landscape master, portraitist.

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The permanent exposition of the museum is distributed in two sections. The first presents various spheres of artistic and social life of Galicia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. As an extraordinary personality, the artist of photography and epistolary heritage reveal, and theoretical publications, reflections on current topics of cultural and artistic life present him as a critic and public figure. In the second part of the exposition there are creative works of the artist: lyrical landscapes, psychological portraits, thematic genre compositions. In particular, it presents canvases with views of Lviv and Kiev, portraits of prominent Ukrainian figures, landscapes of Crimea and the Carpathians, Italian and Egyptian landscapes.

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The museum is a cultural and artistic center where the artistic heritage of the outstanding Ukrainian artist is explored and promoted.

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