Museum complex "House" is located in the building, which was built in the years 1785-1790 (project author – architect Form) in the classical style. It is located in the city center, in the depths of the 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 1990-ies.

In the building of the Museum complex housed an Art gallery, Children's Museum center and the exhibition dedicated to the estate culture Vladimir.
"The charm of bygone times..." – these lines of V. A. Zhukovsky's called exposition about Vladimir noble manor. It is located on the second floor of the Museum. The exhibition is imbued with a sense of poetic sadness, it is made in the form of memories of the elderly lady who sits by the fireplace. Above it is a picture of the artist V. Maksimova, appropriately titled All in the past".

House with guns at the gate, and white columns, openwork fence, granite stairs, garden alleys – all this is reminiscent of the former beauty of the noble estate. And here is the corner of the garden, the gazebo, the young lady next to the rocking chair, flowering Apple tree, the Canary in the cage. From the walls watching us persons in powdered wigs. This is a known portrait gallery in the village of St. Andrew counts Vorontsov. Andreyev was a model of 18th-century manor house, with Meissen porcelain, furniture Baroque, embroidered doublets.

Here you can also see the traditional rural noble house living room with dinner table, French tapestry on the wall, striped sofa, violin and mandolin for children's music making. The artistic design of this exposition is rather delicate, but at the same time expressive, it uses the effect of mirrors and mannequins, a complex historical topic here easily puts on exciting art form.

On the lower floor of the Museum complex is located Children's Museum center. The first surprise that greets kids at the entrance – hairy Michael Potapitch. With him near funny Baba Yaga. The youngest visitors of the Museum waiting for the "Toyland" where are the toys from rattles, whistles, clay figurines found in archaeological excavations and traditional Dymkovo, Gorodets, Pulkovo-Maidan toys to aristocratic porcelain dolls from the early 20th century.

Together with the toy you can take not only time travel, but also on the planet: here drawn the vaults and walls of the hall France with the Eiffel tower, Lapland with Santa Claus, amazing Japan with the cherry blossoms and pagodas. And everywhere is a traditional country toys. Here you can "ride" on a high-speed highway from Germany or to look at the small Kingdom Barbie.

The Museum also housed an Art gallery. Her collection began to emerge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when members of the Provincial archival scientific Commission was active in the collection and study of art and historical materials. Among the works of the gallery particularly noteworthy are the paintings of the Italian S. tonchi, a rich collection of popular prints, this book I., the family portraits of the family Iakinfovich.

Gallery collection has increased significantly since 1917 at the expense received during the nationalization of art from Andrew – estate Vorontsov-Dashkevych, Muromtsevo – V. S. Khrapovitsky, Feminine – Leontievich, etc. the Greatest value in the Picture gallery are the works of such great masters as V. Tropinin, A. Savrasov, V. Makovsky, brothers copy them, V. Serov, etc.

In 1980-e years the Museum collection was enriched with paintings by famous Russian artists through acquisitions from Moscow and Leningrad art galleries and private collections. Enriched collection and after research and technological expertise portrait gallery Vorontsov.

Portrait gallery Vorontsov presented a family portrait painted by A. Antropov, D. Levitsky, F. Rokotov, And Roslin. There are genre portraits of V. Tropinin, of making disciples of A. Venetsianov. Here you can also see the scenery brush I. Aivazovsky, L. Lagorio, A. Bogolyubov.

Not so many pictures of artists-Itinerants, which largely determined the further development of Russian art. In the portraits of I. Kramskoy, A. Korzukhin, V. Perov, V. Makovsky there are new discoveries in this genre that reaches here is special psychological expressiveness.

True the collection landscape "Spring day" by A. Savrasov. Along with the lyrics Saratovsky motifs in the landscape art of the 19th century there was also an epic beginning, which is embodied in the works of I. Shishkin, also presented in the gallery of the Museum complex.

In the Museum collection vividly presented to the realistic school. Here you can see a painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, Tourjansky, P. Petrovichev, S. Zhukovsky, etc. the Exhibition of works of Russian art of the 18th – early 20th centuries allows the visitor gallery to fully feel the power of artistic traditions that are dominant in a given historical period.

The main stages of the development of art after October 1917 represented in the exhibition "Contemporary art. XX century". Among the paintings of this time, the Museum presents works by W. Costantina, K. Redko, V. Lebedev, E. Lansere, Tourjansky, K. Korovin, P. Konchalovsky, Juon, P. Kuznetsova, V. Meshkov, R. Falk.

In the gallery did not remain without attention and the period of the great Patriotic war and the current stage of development of the fine arts. Created during the war, the paintings of P. Krivonogov, B. Karpova, E. Zubehina differ in reliability, and a strong emotional impact on the viewer.

The works of the past several 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. Britov, V. Kokurin turns, V. Yukina, N. Are N. Todorova.