Elena Kulchytska Art Memorial Museum is a museum institution of artistic and memorial direction, a branch of the National Museum named after Andrei Sheptytsky in Lviv, the exposition of the museum is dedicated to the person and work of a prominent Ukrainian graphic artist, illustrator, painter, master of decorative and applied arts, teacher and public figure Olena Kulchytska (1877—1967).

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The museum was opened on April 21, 1971 in the former residence and creative workshop of the artist, in which the artist lived and worked since 1938, when she moved with her mother and sister Olga from Przemysl to Lviv, on the third floor of a residential building (architectural monuments of the late 19th century), located on the street of Lystopdovoi Chin, 7.

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All creative heritage, housing and personal belongings of the artist, according to her will, were donated to the Ukrainian people in the person of the National Museum in Lviv.

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On the 130th anniversary of the birth of the graphic artist, in 2007, the exposition was renewed.

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The exposition of the museum, which is spread out in four spacious rooms of the artist's residence, comprehensively presents the artist's creative achievements in various genres and types of fine and applied art. The exposition presents painting, graphics, decorative and applied arts, journalistic heritage, memorial objects and archival materials, attesting to the versatility of the artist's searches and creative extracts. The maximally preserved interior of the artist's residence recreates her aesthetic preferences regarding the artistic design of urban housing in the context of creative interpretation of the Ukrainian folk tradition.

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In the exposition, Olena Kulchytska is represented as an innovator and creator of modern expression in Ukrainian artistic culture. In particular, there are exhibited carpets and furniture in the Ukrainian style, made according to the projects of sisters Elena and Olga Kulchitsky (Olga Kulchytska (1874-1940) - master of decorative and applied arts, teacher of handicrafts at the Girls' Institute in Przemysl) and a valuable collection of folk ceramics from the village artist's books. They found a place in the rooms of the museum and tools of art work — a machine for printing engravings, engraving cutters, a weaving machine.

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Enamels in the Art Nouveau style, which became the beginning of the revival of this technique in Ukraine, represented in the exhibition the Viennese period (1905-1907) of the artist's work: triptychs “Seasons”, “Folk Art”, copper cassette, decorated with enamel, a number of women's jewelry. For the tape, the artist received the highest award of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1907. The first graphic works in the technique of black and white and colored linorite, which are presented in the museum: “Harvesters”, “Shepherds”, “Harvest”, “Over the Stream”, “Young Hutsul” (1903-1906) belong to the Viennese Perild. These works are executed in line and silhouette without tonal transitions, in the graphic manner inherent in the early works of the artist.

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In the artist's workshop and personal room, oil painting is collected: paintings painted on the plenary during her life in Kosovo (1908-1913), and in the village. Domazhyr near Lviv; Impressionist sketches from a trip to the Adriatic (1911); oil work “The Virgin” “Golden Colossus"” - a sample of innovative searches in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau, and graphic works with which the artist participated in all-Ukrainian exhibitions in Kyiv (1911, 1913).

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In the private room, the living arrangement of the artist's residence has been preserved - a fragment of the interior of the Kulchitsky residence in Przemysl with the carpet “Our Lady with Angels” and the icon “Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, pray for us” (1908) has been recreated.

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