The Museum of the History of Lviv Railway is a specialized museum institution in Lviv, presenting the development of railway transport. The museum was founded in 1973. At that time it was the first railway museum in Ukraine. Since 2001, the museum has been transferred to the Palace of Science and Technology of the Lviv West Locomotive Depot on the street. Fedkovich 54-56.

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The exhibition presents the development of the railway network of Galicia, Volyn, Bukovina and the Carpathians during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Second Polish Republic, the USSR and during the time of independent Ukraine. It presents the history of European railways, the construction of lines, in particular the Galician Railway named after Karl Ludwig, which connected Krakow with Przemysl and Lviv, the railway station, the reconstruction of infrastructure after the First and Second World Wars.

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The exposition of the museum presents unique administrative documents, photographs, layouts, equipment, tools and uniforms of railway workers of different eras. The pride of the museum is the album “Kolya Volodymyr-Volynskyi — Sokal” of 1916 edition, trilingual passenger tickets of 1918—1921, the counting machine “Coptomir”, which was used until 1939.

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