Year of foundation: 1880
The palace was built according to the project of the French architect Ludwig de Verne with the participation of the Polish architect Julian Tsybulsky in the place of a small manor belonging to the Potocki family, namely Maria Sangushki and her husband.
Until 1879 there was a large city park. The building is made in the style of French classicism, brick, plastered, H-shaped in the plan, with a developed central rzalit and lateral wings. Three storey, with attic. The facades are decorated with figured window frames and rustication, stucco balconies and balustrades. The front entrance is decorated with an arched portico with stucco and ionic columns.
On the ground floor there were the main hall for reception of guests, in the decoration of which are widely used stucco, gilding, colored marble, valuable wood, painting. From the street on the courtyard there are the grand monumental gates with two wings decorated with a caroush. For receptions in the Pototsky palace there were places for crew entrance, meeting rooms. The total area of the palace is 3,100 square meters.
Already at the end of the XIX - early XX centuries around the Pototsky palace, a number of multistory buildings were built, some of them coming out of the front facades to the street, and the rear portions towards the palace. Therefore, the view of the Potocki Palace remained open only from the street of Copernicus
From 1945 to 1972, under Soviet rule, the palace was transferred to the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of combustible minerals of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
In 1972, the Palace of solemn events (Lviv city secret police) was located here. In 1973-1974, the palace was restored. In 1996, Lviv Palace of Arts was built alongside the building
In 2001 the Lviv Art Gallery received a magnificent palace, which presents the collection of European art of the 14th-18th centuries.