Permanent exhibition of the Historic Mansion

About exhibition

The museum is located in an 18th-century architectural monument. The building was constructed in 1786 according to a standard design for a residential house. Its history has been turbulent: it burned down repeatedly and was rebuilt, altered, and renovated several times. It was never used for its original purpose. Initially it housed a bank office, later an exchange office, a commercial bank, and then the city customs office. Five rooms of the mansion — the portrait room and the men's study, the blue drawing room, the boudoir, and the dining room — transport visitors to a long-gone era. Furniture, paintings, mirrors, and porcelain fill the house with the spirit of past epochs and evoke the once unhurried, deliberate urban life.