The Bandinelli Palace is a memorial of the late Renaissance (1593) with the stone dolphins on the facade. He believed these dolphins promoted the owner of the building in trading and protected him from dangers. At the beginning of the 17th century, a merchant from Italy, Roberto Bandinelli, visited our city and decided to stay in Lviv. He received the citizenship of Lviv, bought this house and started a new and unusual business for the city: he started here the classic post of the European model. In 1629, Polish King Sigismund III provided Bandinelli with the privilege of keeping regular royal mail and gifted him with the title of royal post-magistrate. The Lvivites could send and receive letters from all over Europe every Saturday, but these services were incredibly expensive. Sending only six grams of correspondence, for example to Gdansk, was equaled the daily wage of a skilled artisan. Paper was heavy in those days, and soon the Lviv Council refused such expensive services. Bandinelli had invested a lot of money into this business and the Lviv Council’s action made a bankrupt of him. In 1737-1739 the building was rebuilt, reducing it to reinforce the fortress. The reconstruction is evidenced by a sign on the facade wall, you can see it from Stavropigyska Street. In the 19th century, there was a bookstore Wilda here, a kind of club of Lviv’s intellectuals. The well-known Polish poet Cornel Ueissky was living in this building that time. The Bandinelli Palace has experienced a dramatic history in modern times. At the end of the 70’s of the last century the critical state of the building was detected. The inadequate repair of the building by the Soviet methods was for more harm than good. Finally, when the city community began to express their strong protest, the building was given to the restorers. After almost twenty-six years of repair and restoration, the grand opening of the Bandinelli Palace took place on December 28, 2005. Thanks to the paintings that have been preserved since then, the style of the rooms and even the design of the furniture are reproduced to public. Now the most diverse expositions of the Lviv Historical Museum are hosted here.