[citation needed] It is built in a Neo-Renaissance style and originally was designed for Austro-Hungarian Gendarmerie's main office in the city.

[2] During the Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the decade following World War II, a number of members of the OUN were held in the prison.

[citation needed] From the 1960 to the 1980s, a number of Ukrainian dissidents were held in the prison, including Viacheslav Chornovil and Iryna Kalynets.

[citation needed] The Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union described the arrest as "illegal," comparing it to a crackdown in Russia "against historians studying the history of political repression.

"[5] After being released Zabily held a press conference in which he accused the government of seeking to repress research into the history of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

"[3] Alexandra Wachter of the University of Vienna stated in 2017 that the museum "focuses on the heroism of OUN and UPA activists and omits the local involvement in the Holocaust that might question this heroism," also saying that what Nazi material is presented in the museum is presented "without communicating its original propagandistic, anti-Semitic nature.