Kharkiv Art Museum

The Art Museum in Kharkiv is a state museum and one of the largest collections of applied and fine arts in the country.

It was founded in 1905 and was originally called the City Art and Industry Museum. Headed the configuration of the new museum famous Kharkiv historian D.I. Bagaley. Since 1920, the museum was called the Church-Historical Museum, and in 1922 it was renamed the Museum of Ukrainian Art and divided into 3 departments - sculpture, painting and architecture. In the 1930s, the museum closed for visitors and only in 1944 it was reopened under the name of the Museum of Ukrainian Art. In the period 1949-1965 it was called the State Museum of Fine Arts and only then the modern name was adopted.

The museum building was built in 1912 according to the project of the famous Russian architect and academician A.N. Beketov. The building is made in classical style with some baroque elements.