Solomiya's Home — The Lviv Years (1929-1952)

The current exhibition reconstructs the everyday life of Solomiya Krushelnytska in her Lviv home on the street that today bears her name. From 1929, after completing her international stage career, the singer returned to Galicia and settled in Lviv, which was then part of the Polish Republic. Here she devoted the rest of her life to teaching — lecturing at the Lviv Conservatory from 1927, raising the next generation of Ukrainian singers. The exhibition shows the original interior of her study — a Bechstein piano, the working desk with scores and letters, the library of partitures, posters, photographic portraits of stage colleagues. A separate section is dedicated to Krushelnytska's difficult choices during the dramatic period of 1939-1952: the Soviet occupation of Lviv in September 1939 found the singer at home; she refused emigration, continued teaching at the Lviv Conservatory under the Soviet regime, lived through the Second World War in occupied Lviv, and returned to teaching after 1944. In 1944-1952, Krushelnytska prepared the next generation of Ukrainian opera singers. In 1952 she bequeathed her home and collection to Lviv for the memorial museum. The exposition emphasises: Krushelnytska consciously chose to remain in Ukraine during its most difficult trials — an act of civic position equal to her vocal triumphs on world stages.