The building in the style of "Empire" with a mezzanine with three windows - the only house in the area, which gives an idea of building in the post Napoleonic times Arbat.

    The interior of the museum recreates the atmosphere with an accuracy and a living room at home Herzen, making it clear what was then a noble life, as were the relations between people, what thoughts have visited the inhabitants of this house. Here you can see the unique portraits of Herzen, his parents, wife and children, rare books autographed by the writer of the manuscript and the types of places associated with Herzen in Russia and abroad.

    Among the exhibits is a really exciting thing. In 1974, among the materials donated to the museum's great-grandson of Herzen Leonard Rist, was a small child perchatochka, miraculously survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, which killed a mother of Herzen and his youngest son, Nick. Among other memorable treasures of the museum - box with the things of Herzen's wife Nataly and icon of St.. Alexander Nevsky, which her father had blessed his daughter and her future husband. And much, much more ...