[1] One of the main objects of the center is Boris Yeltsin's Museum, dedicated to the contemporary political history of Russia and its first president.

[2] The Yeltsin Center was established in accordance with the 2008 law "On centers of historical heritage of presidents of the Russian Federation ceased to carry out its powers" for the preservation, study and public presentation of the heritage of the first President of the Russian Federation "in the context of the recent history of the Fatherland, the development of democratic institutions and the rule of law".

[9] By the fall of 2016 in the cinema-conference hall of the center conduct lectures in the framework of the project "Intellecture", dedicated to the technologies of the future.

Russian film director Nikita Mikhalkov accused the Center of deliberate manipulation of history and destruction of the consciousness of the people.

In January 2018, Pavel Grudinin, presidential candidate from the Communist Party, proposed to close the Yeltsin Center and to give the building to a children's educational club.