Sample original wooden architecture with intricate carved patterns decorates one of the historic streets of Syzran. The elegant mansion was built in 1910 for the mayor Martinian Vasilyevich Chernukhina.

The merchant of the first guild M.V.Chernuhin, twice elected head of Syzran (from 1902-1906. And 1909-1917.), In addition to the public service was an active philanthropist and the first to take part in rebuilding the city after a fire in 1906. The estate with wooden Terem he lived with his wife Tatyana Spryshkovoy and foster son Kolya.

Unique in its design, the mansion has a truncated pyramidal roofs, Corner of the right side of the facade and original carved frames - style inherent in the wooden architecture of the Russian North. Today, the building is decorated interior of noble living.

Since 1983, the building of an old mansion was considered an architectural monument of federal importance and given local history museum. The former home of the merchant M.V.Chernuhina is now Showroom - branch Syzran museum. In the exhibition hall demonstrated two permanent exhibitions: "Merchant Living" and "The art collection of Count Orlov-Davydov" from Usolsk estate. Other exposition spaces are available and traveling exhibitions of the masters of arts and crafts. In the exhibition hall you can buy paintings by local artists, and souvenirs.