The museum complex "the House" is located in the building of public places, which was built in the years 1785-1790 (the project author - architect Blank) in a classic style. It is located in the city center, in the depths of an old park with walkways and a fountain, between the ancient cathedrals. The building was designed for the needs of the provincial administration, bureaucratic it remained until the 1990s.

The building of the museum complex are located Art Gallery, Children's Museum Center and an exhibition dedicated to the culture of the manor of Vladimir.
"Charm of days gone by ..." - these lines VA Zhukovsky called exposition of Vladimir noble estate. It is located on the second floor of the museum. Exposure riddled poetic sense of sadness, it is made in the form of memories of an elderly lady, who is sitting by the fireplace. Above it is a painting by V. Maximov appropriately named "All in the past."

House with guns at the gate and white columns, delicate railing, granite steps, garden paths - all are reminiscent of a bygone beauty noble estate. And here is the corner of the garden, gazebo, next to the young lady rocking chair, flowering apple tree, a canary in a cage. On the walls are looking at us in the face powdered wigs. This famous portrait gallery in the village of St. Andrew count Vorontsov. Andreev was a model of 18th-century manor with meyssenskim porcelain, furniture, "baroque", embroidered camisole.

Here you can also see the traditional to noble farmhouse living room: table set for dinner, French tapestry on the wall, striped sofa, violin and mandolin for children playing. Artistic solution to this exposure - rather delicate, but at the same time expressive, it uses the effect of mirrors and dummies complex historical subject is easily processed into a fascinating art form.

On the ground floor of the museum complex is a children's museum center. The first surprise that greets kids at the entrance - a shaggy Michael Potapych. With him - next to a funny Baba Yaga. The youngest museum visitors waiting for "Toyland", which presents toys from rattles, whistles, clay figurines found during archaeological excavations and traditional Dymkovo, Gorodetsky, Połchowo-Maydanovskih aristocratic toys to porcelain dolls early 20th century.

At the same toy can make not only a journey through time, but also for the planet: that's painted vaults and walls of the hall France, with its Eiffel Tower, Lapland, with its Santa Claus, Japan, with an amazing cherry blossoms and pagodas. And everywhere - typical for a country's toys. Where you can "ride" on a high-speed motorway from Germany or look into the small kingdom of Barbie.

The building also housed the Museum and Art Gallery. Her collection began to take shape in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the member of the provincial scientific archive committee was active in the collection and study of art and historical materials. Among the works of the gallery, special attention should Tonchev Italian paintings, a rich collection of popular prints Golysheva I., family portraits family Akinfovyh.

Collection Gallery greatly enriched after 1917 due to received during the nationalization of art from St. Andrew's - it Vorontsov-Dashkov, Muromtsevo - VS Khrapovitsky, Fetinino - Leontiev and others. The greatest value in the Picture Gallery are the works of such great masters as V. Tropinin, A. Savrasov, V. Makovsky, brothers Vasnetsov, Serov and others.

In the 1980s, the museum's collection has been enriched with paintings by famous Russian artists through acquisitions of Moscow and Leningrad art galleries and private collections. To enrich the collection and after the research and technological expertise of the Portrait Gallery Vorontsov.

Portrait Gallery Vorontsov presented family portraits brush A. Antropov, D. Levitsky, F. Rokotoff AND Roslin. There are well represented genre portraits of V. Tropinin, A. Venetsianov making disciples. You can also see the scenery brush Ivan Aivazovsky, L. Lagorio, A. Bogolyubov.

Not so numerous paintings Wanderers, who largely determined the further development of Russian art. In the portrait of Archaeology, Korzukhina A., V. Perov, V. Makovsky, new discoveries of this genre, which reach here a special psychological expressiveness.

The real decoration of the meeting - the landscape "Spring Day" by A. Savrasov. Together with lyrics savrasovskih motifs in landscape art of the 19th century there was also the beginning of an epic, which is embodied in the works of Ivan Shishkin, as shown in the Picture Gallery of the museum complex.

The museum vividly shows realist school. Here you can see paintings Vasnetsov, L. Turzhansky, P. Petrovicheva, S. Zhukovsky, and others. The exposition of works of Russian art of the 18th - early 20th centuries, allows the visitor to the gallery to fully enjoy the power of artistic traditions prevailing in a particular historical period .

The main stages of the development of art after October 1917 are presented in the exhibition "Contemporary Art. XX Century ". Among the paintings of this time, the museum features works by V. Kostyanitsyna, K. Redko, V. Lebedev, Lansere, L. Turzhansky, Konstantin Korovin, Konchalovsky, K Juon, P. Kuznetsov, Vladimir Meshkov, R. Falk .

The gallery has not gone unnoticed and the Great Patriotic War and the current stage of development of fine arts. Created during the war painting by Krivonogova, Boris Karpov, E. Zubehin differ significantly, and strong emotional impact on the viewer.

Works of the past few decades reflect the diversity of the artistic process, it has become an integral part of the Vladimir school of landscape. Which is represented by the works of K. Britova V. Kokurina, B. Yukina, Mokrova N., N. Modorova.