The Kharkiv Art Museum invites you to embark on an exciting journey through the history of visual arts. Visitors can travel through time, moving from hall to hall and getting acquainted with unique works of art from different eras. The museum's collection features thousands of exhibits that vividly represent their time: decorative and applied arts of the 18th-19th centuries, as well as famous paintings by masters such as I. Repin, I. Aivazovsky, V. Borovikovsky, A. Benois, and others. The museum also houses a collection of rare icons from the 16th and 19th centuries that could adorn the exhibitions of the best European museums.

Lovers of contemporary art can enjoy regular exhibitions showcasing the work of modern artists and the cultural heritage of 20th-century masters. The museum displays not only paintings but also sculptures, graphics, ceramics, and valuable artifacts made of metal, stone, and bone.

The Kharkiv Art Museum is one of the oldest and most respected museums in Ukraine. Exhibitions from its collection have been shown in various countries across Europe, the USA, Japan, Israel, and even Bolivia.

The museum building, constructed in 1912 by the renowned Ukrainian architect A. N. Beketov for industrialist I. E. Ignatiev, the owner of a Kharkiv brewery, is designed in a classical style with elements of baroque. After the October Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power in Kharkiv, the building housed the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine under the leadership of V. Ya. Chubar in 1922 and 1928. After the relocation of the Council in 1928 to the State Industry building, the former mansion of Ignatiev housed the Institute named after T. G. Shevchenko, which is now the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv. In the post-war years, the Kharkiv Art Museum was established in this building.