Lviv National Academy of Arts is a higher education establishment in Ukraine.HistoryThe idea of Art Academy creation originated over 100 years ago and consequently the modern educational institution is considered a legal successor of the best traditions and acquisition of art education initiated in Lviv in the middle of the 19th century. It has its origin in the school of design and drawing attached to the Museum of Artistic Craft (1876), Free Academy of Art (1905), O. Novakivskyi’s Art School (1923), and Academy of Arts (V. Krychevskyi was a rector of it in 1944). Such prominent artists as I. Trush, O. Kulchytska, O. Kurylas, A. Manastyrskyi, H. Smolskyi, S. Hordynskyi and many others studied and then taught at these art institutions.The foundation of the higher artistic educational institution in Lviv in 1946 was caused by an acute need of highly qualified specialists of fine art, applied and decorative art in Lviv. Hence at first the chairs of art textile, art ceramics, wood ware, sculpture and painting played the leading role. They were closely connected with the local traditions, folk art creation and at the same time they traditionally kept on accumulating the achievements of European art education and art. During next ten years the Lviv Academy essentially extended its educational propositions, it was enriched with a lot of new forms and trends of artists training admittedly meets the European standards. A large competition among entrants that come from different regions of Ukraine as well as from many foreign countries is a convincing confirmation of its high level. Among the educational innovations introduced by the Lviv Academy there are numerous specializations that correspond to modern requirements of entrants. The matter concerns the exclusive trends of graphic design, artistic means of advertisement, monumental painting, art metal, interior design, furniture design and new kinds of ceramics, art glass, art textile and others.