The National Pushkin Museum is one of the oldest literary museums in Russia. It is the first-rate Russian museum devoted to the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

    In 1997 on the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation the National Pushkin Museum was proclaimed an especially valuable object of the cultural heritage of Russia. At present, the Museum possesses a unique collection of iconographical, memorial and historical materials featuring Pushkin's epoch, as well as paintings, graphics, sculpture and pieces of applied arts by the prominent artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Not limited to Pushkin's life and creative work, the museum complex became storage of various documents on Russian history and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The unique museum complex includes: the literary monographic exhibition "Alexander Pushkin. Life and Creative Work"; the Pushkin Apartment Museum; the Lyceum Museum; the Pushkin Country House Museum; the Nekrasov Apartment Museum; and the Derzhavin Estate Museum