The National Art Museum of Ukraine is the most representative collection of Ukrainian art in the world. The collection of the museum has more than 40 thousand exhibits, including masterpieces of Ukrainian icon painting, painting, sculpture, graphics, media from the 12th century to the present. The museum was founded by the efforts of Ukrainian intelligentsia and philanthropist industrialists at the end of the 19th century as the first public museum in Kiev. On September 21, 1897, the first stone of the museum was laid; the first 50 thousand crabs were released from the treasury. The museum building was built according to the project of the architect Petro Boytsov in the neoclassical style. The famous Kiev architect Vladislav Gorodetsky finalized the project and directed the works. The sculptural decoration of the facade was made by the workshop of Elio Sala. Due to the lack of exhibition space, only 5-6% of the exhibits could be exhibited, so the museum was moved to the Klovsky Palace (architectural monument of national importance of the XVIII century on the street. Pylypa Orlyka, 8) and was opened on May 26, 1982 in the days of celebration of the 1500th anniversary of the city. The Museum was housed in the Klovsky Palace for more than twenty years and had 18 exhibition and assembly halls, administrative premises and stock repositories. During this time, the Museum gained fame as one of the best cultural and educational institutions of the capital of Ukraine and became a visiting card of ancient Kiev. However, by order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 506 dated August 11, 2003, the building of the Klovsky Palace was transferred to the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Since March 10, 2004. The museum was closed to visitors and “moved” to the 4th and 5th floors in the Palace of Arts “Ukrainian House” on the street. Khreshchatyk, 2.06 June 2012, under the pressure of the public, the building of the shopping and office center near the metro station “Teatralnaya” on the street was transferred to the use of the “Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv”. Bogdan Khmelnitskogo, 7, where since August 22, 2012. The Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv has resumed exhibition-exhibition activities, and now functions as the Museum of the History of the City of Kyiv.