Historic Mansion on the Embankment

About museum

In 1786 a house was built according to a standard design; in the following years it was rebuilt, altered and renovated. It successively housed a banking office, an industrial office, a commercial bank and the city customs house. In 1964 the building was transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts, and after restoration in 1998 a permanent exhibition "Portrait in an Old Interior" opened. The mansion’s five rooms help visitors be transported to a bygone time, to feel the spirit of earlier epochs and to reconstruct the once unhurried, deliberate urban life. The museum displays furniture, paintings, mirrors and porcelain that illustrate the changing artistic styles in interior design from the late 18th to the early 20th century.