Anna Akhmatova Museum opened on the centenary of the poet, in the Fountain House, which was formerly part of the Sheremetev Palace. In the pre-war period are stationed House of entertaining science, but it was destroyed during bombezhek.Sperva museum was only part of the Dostoevsky museum, but later outgrew an independent predpriyatie.Vsyu exposure can be divided into two parts: memorial (which can be viewed as a living Akhmatova) and literary-historical. At present collection has more than 50 thousand units, including rare copies of books autographed by various poets.