Vul. Arsenalna, 3 – Lviv History Museum (formerly, a jewish school building)

1788 – a masonry townhouse was built in place of wooden houses.
1863 – the house was repaired.
1873 – repair works and an adaptation of the whole building for a school (architect Jόzef Engel, builder Andrzej Gołąb).
1874-1875 – the shingle roof was replaced with a new tin one; new front stairs were arranged; the house was connected to the city sewerage system under a project designed by Michael Gerl.
1921 – the premises were repaired and adapted for the Jewish cultural and educational society "Tarbut"  (architect Zygmunt Schmucker).
1982 – repair works with the construction of a new roof.
 
The house is located in the former Jewish quarter, within the old city fortifications, south-east of the Rynok (Market) square (in the territory of the present part of the city protected by the UNESCO); it closes Arsenalna and Staroyevreyska streets, as well as Szklarska street which no longer exists. This building is an important element of the historical housing of the city in general and of the Jewish quarter in particular.

The area between Arsenalska and Szklarska streets belonged to the Jewish community already in the 17^th century. The earliest information about it comes from the 18^th century. According to the 1767 schoss (or szos) tax register, the site was occupied by a wooden house of Aaron the Factor (executor, shopkeeper) and Majerk, a synagogue sexton. Before 1788 Feiwel Mendlowicz erected a masonry townhouse in the place of the wooden house.

In the early 19^th century a part of the building was occupied by a German Jewish elementary school, which was reorganized into a normal common Jewish school in 1860. In 1863, according to the Magistrate's resolution, the building belonging to the Jewish community and to Aron Frenkel (a quarter) was repaired. In 1873 the private quarter was sold by another owner, Moses Feld, to the community, which started to repair it adapting the whole building for a school. The project was designed by Josef Engel, the masonry works were performed by Andrzej Gołąb. In 1874 the shingle roof was replaced with a new tin one, new front stairs were arranged, and the house was connected to the city sewerage system under a project designed by Michael Gerl. It was then that there were plans to close Szklarska street from the side of Staroyevreyska street; however, the Magistrate did not agree. The works were finished on 22 January 1875. As the main school building lacked space for classes, the school used upper floors of the nearby house number 7 on Arsenalna street.

In 1889, after the school switched to teaching in Polish, it was transformed into the Abraham Kohn public school for girls. The long-standing director of the school was Henryk Biegeleiser, a researcher of Polish literature. The Abraham Kohn school functioned until the end of the First World War.

In the interwar period the Abraham Kohn school premises were used by the cultural and educational society "Tarbut" which offered a variety of training courses. In 1921 architect Zygmunt Schmucker designed a project of arranging a balcony on the third floor from the side of Szklarska street. However, it was not implemented due to unknown reasons.

After the Second World War the building was turned into a hostel. In 1982, after a thorough restructuring, the house number 3 was transferred to the ownership of the Lviv Historical Museum. The second and third floors are occupied by the Museum administrative offices. Some premises are leased. Transformer substations are arranged in some ground floor rooms.