The Fountain House was built in the 18th century as a palace for the noble Sheremetev family, while the South wing in the garden was added in 1845, designed by Ieronim Corsini.

[3] From 1935 to 1941, it housed the Museum of Popular Science, which closed immediately upon the German invasion.

[5] In 2003 the exposition was separated into memorial (with restored apartment of Akhmatova and Punin) and literary parts.

It is based on things which Maria Sozzani, the widow of Joseph Brodsky, gifted to the museum: furniture, library, postcard collection, etc., from Brodsky's last house in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

The Silver Age"[7] and is located on the ground floor of an ordinary apartment building in the vicinity of Avtovo.