The museum is located in the former estate of millionaire industrialist Ignatyshchev (who owned the Ivanivsk brewery before the October Revolution of 1917) - the building was constructed as a residential building (for one family) in 1912 by the architectural academician Alexei Beketov in the classicist style with elements of Baroque and Art Nouveau.

[1][2] In 1907, at the personal request of Bahalii, Ilya Repin donated to the museum his portrait of General Mikhail Dragomirov.

[3] The building of the Kharkiv Art Museum is located at the address: Zhon Myronosyts Street [uk], 11.

It was built in 1912 according to the project of the Ukrainian architect and academician Alexei Beketov for the industrialist I. E. Ignatishchev, the owner of the Kharkiv Ivanovo brewery.

The museum's collections include about 25 thousand items of painting, graphics, sculpture, decorative and applied arts, which are stored here.