Historical and Memorial Museum of Political Prisoners in Ternopil was founded in 1996 in the basement of the KGB detention center through which passed thousands of Ukrainian patriots, leading the fight against Bolshevik totalitarianism. It was here, on the initiative of the Union of political prisoners and the organization "Memorial", and decided to host a thematic museum, which became a branch of the Ternopil State Museum. The head of the museum, was elected a former linguist, J. Pavulyak dissident and senior research fellow - I. Oleshuk - a former political prisoner.

In 1944-1986 gg. This building housed the NKVD-KGB remand prison. In the basement there were cameras of the detention facility where interrogations and inhumane torture of detainees. Placed in cells exposure realistically recreate the conditions of detention, the materials stay in prison camps and interrogation techniques. Cameras, "punishment cells", locks, doors, instruments of torture - it keeps a history of all the cruel abuse the system of penalties against people.

Wall stands devoted leaders and commanders of the armed underground: R. Shukhevych, V. Sidorov, D. Klyachkivskomu, General UPA Goncharenko EV setting, Colonel, "Aeneas" and others. The museum presents personal belongings of prisoners, models Siberian concentration camps and wagon "calf house", which was equipped with grids to transport prisoners. In addition, the museum houses materials testifying to the repression of the Bolsheviks in the territory of the Western Ukrainian lands in the 1939-1941 biennium.

In 2002, the 60th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, here on the facade of a building on the street Copernicus, 1 was a memorial stele, which states: "Here, in the KGB remand prison sentenced, tortured and executed thousands of Ukrainian patriots. In memory of victims of political repression. "