The Museum of the urban planning and everyday life of Taganrog is located on ulitsa Frunze, 80, two miles from the city centre. The Museum has so many exhibits, but they are all interesting and unique.

The Museum building, built in art Nouveau style, looks a bit like the building of the Yaroslavl station in Moscow: the trapezoidal shape of the roof of the Central building with a gable metal roof, gabled tower, the alternation of Windows, asymmetrical composition. On the left tower were originally seen the initials of the owner, later replaced by a pointed spire, crowned after 1978 vane. Gate tower decorated with masks of the lionesses M. Vrubel. Fascia part of the facade is covered with ceramic tiles with colorful mosaic paintings "Sail boats", "battleship". Rostov region is the only example of facade of monumental painting.

The mansion was built in 1912 according to the project of architect F. O. Shekhtel and until 1917 it belonged to the corn Chandler E. I. Sharonov. After the revolutionary events of 1917, the building was nationalized by the state and continued to live in various guises: sericulture station in 1920-1922, 1923 – children's clinic. In the years of German occupation in the building was the headquarters of the 1st tank army of General E. von Kleist, and after the liberation of Taganrog – different city services and agencies, including the Ordzhonikidzevsky district Committee of the CPSU.

In 1978-1981 carried out a complete restoration of the building and there was opened the Museum of the urban planning and everyday life of Taganrog". The Museum itself is unique in that it is the only such Museum in Russia. The exhibition presents old postcards, plans, photographs of historic sites and monuments Taganrog, preserving the unique architectural plastics NINETEENTH – early twentieth centuries. Also exhibited unique pieces of decorative art, masterpieces of Western European and Russian glass, pieces of furniture from the time of Peter to the present.

In 1995, the Museum was assigned to the monuments of the Russian Federation.