The museum is located in a monument of architecture of the XVII century. Modest on the outside and lavishly painted from the middle, Clariscus Church was built in 1607 by Paul the Roman and Bernard Avelides on the site of the chapel of St. Anne, nun of the Clares of the Bernardine Order. Since then, the Renaissance elements of the side facade of the church from Lychakivska Street have been preserved.

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In the 1740s, the church underwent a reconstruction in the Baroque style. At this time, the tower on the western facade was dismantled and the building of the former monastery was erected. The vaults of the church in the 1760s were decorated with paintings by Stanislav Stroinsky, although some researchers believe that this is the work of his brother Martin Stroinsky. Separate plots in the southern nave were drawn by Tadeusz Popel at the border of the XIX-XX centuries.

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In connection with the adaptation of the temple as a garrison church (1938—1939), it was reconstructed according to the project of the architect Antony Lobos. Above the main facade of the church, a bell tower was completed in the style of functionalism with Baroque elements, the monastery building was reconstructed and the area in front of the shrine was arranged.

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After the cassation of the monastery of Clarisok by the Austrian government in the 1780s, a tobacco warehouse was placed in the temple, and in the monastery there was a customs government (Tzlovy). Since then, the square has become known as Tslova — now Customs. Before World War I, the temple was returned to believers, and in the late 1940s it was again adapted as a warehouse.

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At the beginning of the last century, the church was separated from the street by a high brick wall.

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Since 1978, the premises of the church began to be used as an exhibition hall of contemporary art, and in 1996 the Museum of Baroque Sculpture of John George Pinzel was opened here.

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Master Pinzel, and in the mid-1740s, when he arrived in the town of Buchach at the invitation of tycoon Nikolai Potocki, the little-known master dreamer John Georgy Pinzel. And his biography is still shrouded in many mysteries.

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Carved stone figures of the Buchach Town Hall brought success to the young master. Thanks to his extraordinary artistic vision, the sculptor begins to receive many new orders. He creates sculptures for shrines in Buchach, Monastyriski, Horodenka, Godovytsia, Marijampol, Lviv, Rukomyshl, Budanov.

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Pinzel managed to invest in each of his works strength and lightness, temperament and tension, dramaturgy and perspective of meanings — an insightful understanding of the human soul. However, his artistic improvements have been waiting for worthy attention for almost a century and a half. It is only in the interwar period that an artistic understanding of Pinzel's sculptural heritage begins, which continues today.

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As a result of the disdain for the monuments of sacred architecture on our lands in the second half of the twentieth century, a large number of Pinzel's sculptures partially or completely disappeared. The Lviv National Gallery of Art houses the largest number of sculptures of the Master carved from wood (in the Pinzel Museum and Olesky Castle), the rest - in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and Kolomyia.

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