This makes little sense without more context. Was it not there before he came to power but there now? The cars in the first picture appear to have little signs in front of them explaining their history or something. Looks more like a museum.

It doesn't look like somewhere set up to show round friends or people you want to impress - it looks like it's for visitors to go round on their own. I'd guess 'public museum next to his residence' or something like that.

apparently had no idea about.
You think those are 'museum' quality items of Ukrainian culture?

and the information plates look exactly like a museum (and yes, museums do contain old cars).

Looking for more, it appears this was known about( the mock 'galleon', anyway), but does seems to have been off limits to the public: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/alexander-j-motyl/yanukovych%E2%80%99s-galleon-and-yushchenko%E2%80%99s-obsession

Googel translation of the article: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pravda.com.ua%2Farticles%2F2012%2F08%2F24%2F6971416%2F

Unfortunately, we get "Yanukovych has repeatedly vidhreschuvavsya of these objects, although they belong to him, no doubt." Is that 'denied knowledge'? 'denied ordering'? 'denied ownership'?

http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/serhij-leschenko/yanukovych-luxury-residence-and-money-trail-that-leads-to-london

And I'm not buying that those cars are part of any museum except his own.
He did exactly what many who come to power do:
Spend money that's not his on excessive crap for himself no matter what the country needs. Of course he could have been the one-in-a-million leader who is just the caretaker of these expensive and ancient objects of their culture.

http://kostyad.livejournal.com/5353446.html

http://zaholovok.com.ua/u-mezhigirji-kilogramovi-zoloti-moneti-ta-kolektsiini-avto-foto


Running them through Google Translate, the first link says in part, "In one of the hangars Mezhigorie found bags of jewels. It is reported Espreso.TV. Note that the activists of the "right sector" got into the hangar, where they found a large amount of jewelry. They were stored in boxes and bags. Among them were gold, icons, antiques and precious books."

The second says, "Gold cufflinks were found in a garage in Mezhyhirya with antique icons, books and valuable coins. Also found in the residence garage with a bunch of vintage cars. Also, the found a gold coin with a portrait of Yanukovych weighs a kilo."

http://www.channel4.com/news/ukraine-protest-president-leave-watch-live-video

oh there's where the money went.. Can't exactly blame the EU did this really cost $15 billion to build ? Wouldn't be surprised..

If it was paid for with people's taxes, it should be available to everyone.

No matter that they and their cronies write the laws that make the money and power flow to them.

I didn't think comedians made that much money.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/ukraine-protestors-raid-empty-presidential-compound-to-find

That's 1 Kilo of gold there...