The Museum is disposed on the territory of the formerly noble Ostafyevo country estate. For more than 100 years Ostafyevo belonged to the same family - four generations of the Vyazemsky princes. From 1898 Ostafyevo belonged to Sheremetev family. The great Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin spent twelve years at Ostafyevo working on his famous "History of the Russian State". Throughout the nineteenth century Ostafyevo was closely linked with such illustrious names like Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Adam Mitskevich, Alexander Griboedov and many others. The exposition "The Ostafyevo's persons" and exhibitions of modern painters are open in the Museum. The thematic excursions are daily held. Traditional festivals of poetry are annually held in Ostafyevo to mark Pushkin's birthday.