The museum is located in the very center of Odessa, in a palace-type mansion (Novikov mansion) at ul. Havana, 4, built in 1876 according to the project of the famous Odessa architect Felix Gonsiorovski.The building was built for one of the great representatives of the industrial and commercial elite of that time — Alexander Yakovych Novikov, grandson of the famous Odessa merchant of the first guild Ilya Novikov, owner, founder built in 1806, a rope factory.In the architecture of the two-story mansion, as in the previous works of Felix Gonciorowski, the spirit of stylization prevails, based on the use of forms of the late Renaissance, with a variation of patterns and motifs drawn from The architectural heritage of Italy.