New Design of the Lviv Interactive Platform

The team of the Lviv Interactive platform presents the redesign of the website, which they worked on in 2024 and 2025.

Lviv Interactive is a digital encyclopedia about the history of the city that combines research on the history of Lviv through a network of connections between space, people, institutions, and events. With the help of digital tools such as mapping, we aim to show the historical context that has shaped modern Lviv: its architectural heritage and socio-cultural dynamics. Interactive Lviv today includes more than 1500 publications-authored articles and research projects focusing on the urban history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They describe how the urban fabric of Lviv was formed in different historical contexts, and how public or private spaces emerged that, on the one hand, created urban culture and everyday life, and at the same time became places of extraordinary events or extreme violence.

Along with the research, the digital infrastructure of the platform is also developing. Over the 18 years of the platform's existence, which is unique for such projects, this infrastructure has undergone many changes. The long experience of creating Interactive Lviv today is an important legacy both for the project itself and for the field of digital history in general.

This year, we are presenting a new visual version of the site to make our materials more visible to users. In the past, visitors to the site were immediately directed to our digital map, but as we scaled up our research, it became necessary to create a separate home page for Interactive Lviv.

We have identified several ways to work with the materials of Interactive Lviv. Users can browse through five alphabetical lists — Stories, Walks, Buildings and Spaces, People, Organizations, a digital map, and an image gallery.

Searching the digital map allows you to view materials related to a specific topic, name, or location in the city. In addition to the map search, for better navigation of the platform and other projects of the Center for Urban History, we have integrated Google search into the new version of the website.

We invite you to explore!