The State Literary Museum of the 20th Century was founded as the Mikhail Zoschenko House-Museum in 1988 in the home where the Soviet author lived from 1954 until his death in 1958.  Unlike many house-museums the interiors of the two rooms of the Zoschenko House-Museum have been completely preserved.  In 2007 the remit of the museum was widened to include 20th century literature in general, especially of the 1920s and 1930s.