In 1992, a decision was made to establish the Arkhangelsk Literary Museum under the regional organization of the Volunteer Society of Book Lovers. On March 27, 1997, it received a new name, the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization (ANO) "Arkhangelsk Literary Museum." Its founders were the spouses Boris Mikhailovich and Lyudmila Vladimirovna Yegorov.

The museum features exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of figures such as Fyodor Abramov, Boris Shergin, Stepan Pisakhov, Vladimir Lichutin, Nikolai Rubtsov, the righteous John of Kronstadt, Kozma Prutkov, as well as translators Maria Pikkel and Raisa Frenkel, among others.

The museum's collections number over one hundred thousand items, including original photographs, letters, and manuscripts of writers and poets from the Russian North, a family archive of descendants of A.S. Pushkin, and numerous books with authors' autographs.

The permanent exhibition "Pushkin in Arkhangelsk" includes many editions of the great poet's works in over 70 languages of the world. Many of these books were gifted by state figures from Russia and other countries, such as Vladimir Putin, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Alexander Lukashenko, and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. The collection of autographed gifts is constantly being replenished.

Visitors can see the diaries and working notebooks of Boris Shergin, the manuscript of the novel "Two Winters and Three Summers" by Fyodor Abramov, the manuscript of the novel "Lyubostai" by Vladimir Lichutin, as well as an antique sofa on which the righteous John of Kronstadt rested in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

One of the exhibitions dedicated to writers from the Russian North contains documentary materials about the life and work of the famous Russian folklorist and people's writer Boris Shergin.

The museum also actively conducts research work and publishes books.