The memorial museum 'Apartment of G.M. Krzhizhanovsky and V.V. Starkov' is a branch of the Minusinsk Museum named after N.M. Martyanov. The museum is located in a house that belonged to Fyodor Yermilovich Bragin and his wife Vera Nikiforovna Mamaeva, known as the house of the Bragin brothers. Built in 1878, the house became the residence of Fyodor and Yefim Bragin, who were exiled from the Caucasus to the Minusinsk district in the 1880s. Fyodor married a wealthy widow, Vera Mamaeva, and after her death inherited her fortune, including the house. He was engaged in trade and maintained a guest apartment where exiles stayed. Yefim Bragin worked as a manager for the Minusinsk merchant M.V. Terentyev and later became involved in revolutionary activities.

On May 6, 1897, V.I. Ulyanov Lenin, G.M. Krzhizhanovsky, and V.V. Starkov arrived in Minusinsk, exiled for participating in the Petersburg 'Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class.' They stayed at Fyodor Bragin's house, and on May 8, they departed for their villages: Krzhizhanovsky and Starkov to Tesinskoye, Ulyanov to Shushenskoye.

In August 1898, Krzhizhanovsky and Starkov moved to Minusinsk and settled in Bragin's house. On the second floor, Krzhizhanovsky lived with his wife Z.P. Nevzorova, his mother E.E. Rosenberg, as well as Starkov with his wife A.M. Rosenberg. They lived in Minusinsk for a year, after which the Krzhizhanovsky family left for Nizhneudinsk in the fall of 1899, and the Starkov family in January 1900.

V.I. Ulyanov frequently visited Minusinsk, staying at the Bragin house.

In 1968, the Minusinsk City Executive Committee decided to organize the memorial museum 'Apartment of G.M. Krzhizhanovsky and V.V. Starkov' in the house at 73 Oktyabrskaya Street. The restoration project was developed by employees of the Moscow institute 'Rosspetsrestavratsiya,' and the repairs were carried out by the Minusinsk RSU. The building was returned to its original appearance, with the restoration of 19th-century structures and the interior of the rooms. The museum recreated the atmosphere of living rooms and rental rooms. Fyodor Bragin's daughter, Anna Fyodorovna Bragina, Shepelina, assisted in creating the ethnographic exhibition. The museum features an exhibition 'V.I. Lenin and his associates in Minusinsk,' which has been updated over time.

The museum opened on April 19, 1970, the year marking the 100th anniversary of V.I. Lenin's birth. The first visitor was twice Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Ivanovich Kretov, who came from Moscow for the opening.

Today, the museum introduces visitors not only to the lives of exiles but also to the everyday life of the residents of provincial Minusinsk in the 19th century.