In 1997, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the National Museum of Alexander Pushkin was declared a particularly valuable object of the cultural heritage of Russia. Currently, the museum has a unique collection of iconographic, memorial and historical materials reflecting the Pushkin era, as well as paintings, drawings, sculptures and works of applied art by outstanding masters of the 19th-20th centuries. Not limited to the life and work of Pushkin, the museum complex has become a repository of various documents on the history and culture of Russia in the 18th-19th centuries.

The only memorial apartment of Alexander Pushkin in St. Petersburg is dedicated to the last, most dramatic period of his life.

The museum is located in the former mansion of the Volkonsky princes - on the Moika River near the Konyushenny Bridge. On the first floor of this house, in an apartment of eleven rooms, Pushkin and his family settled in September 1836. Here, four months later, on 29 January 1837 (10 February 1837, according to the Gregorian calendar) the poet died, fatally wounded by Georges-Charles d'Anthès in a duel.

The memorial apartment was recreated on the basis of the testimonies of contemporaries and a number of historical documents.

The museum presents a desk and an armchair in Pushkin's study, a lock of his hair, a death mask, his wife's jewelry, portraits of poet’s children, the sofa on which the poet died, and other unique things that belonged to Pushkin himself, members of his family, friends and acquaintances.

On the ground floor there is an introductory exposition telling about the history of the old house, Pushkin's life in St. Petersburg in 1836, the events preceding the duel and the responses of contemporaries to the death of the great poet.