The building of the literary museum 'House of the Language' in Ulyanovsk occupies a special place in the architectural appearance of the city. Built at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, it represents a noble mansion of urban type, executed in elegant proportions of classicism. It is one of five similar structures from two hundred years ago that have survived in the city to this day.

In the mid-1980s, work began on the creation of the literary museum 'House of the Language', which became a branch of the Ulyanovsk Regional Local History Museum named after I. A. Goncharov. Larisa Yuryevna Ershova and Elena Konstantinovna Bespalova became the founders of the museum. To complete the collection, they traveled to central archives and museums in Moscow and Leningrad. Antique shops in the capitals were used to acquire 19th-century furniture, ancient engravings, and lithographs. Ulyanovsk artists, such as L. N. Netsvetaev and B. N. Sklyaruk, created copies of paintings and graphic works stored in the funds of the capital's museums.

The opening of the literary museum 'House of the Language' took place on June 5, 1999, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet A. S. Pushkin. The main exhibition of the museum, titled 'Pushkin and the Simbiryans', is located in three grand halls on the second floor of the mansion. It tells about famous Simbiryans associated with Pushkin, his Simbirsk friends, and covers the period from the last third of the 18th century to the mid-19th century.