The Memorial Museum of Ismail Gasprinsky is located in the mansion that previously housed the editorial office of the newspaper "Terdzhiman, Translator." The biography of this outstanding figure is quite interesting. Ismail bey Mustafa-oglu Gasprinsky was born in the village of Avzhykoy to a family of a Russian service officer, who was granted noble status in 1854. He received his primary education at home and in a national primary school, then continued his studies at the Simferopol Men's Gymnasium, in Voronezh, and at the 2nd Moscow Military Gymnasium. In 1871, he went to France, and from 1874 to 1875, he lived in Turkey. From 1879 to 1884, he headed the local government as the mayor of Bakhchisarai.

Huseyn Bodaninsky, the first director of the Khan's Palace Museum, invested much effort and knowledge into creating the house-museum and memorial library of Gasprinsky. Since 1883, Gasprinsky was allowed to publish and edit the first Crimean Tatar-Russian newspaper "Terdzhiman, Translator," which remained the only Turkic-language periodical in the Russian Empire and the Muslim world for a long time. At the end of 1905, he began publishing the first Crimean Tatar women's magazine "Alem-i-Nisvan," and from 1906, a humorous magazine in his native language "Ha-ha-ha." Later, Gasprinsky created a new weekly, the organ of the Muslim faction of the State Duma, "Millet." In 1907 and 1908, he published several issues of the Arabic-language newspaper "Al-Nahda" in Egypt.

In 1910, the French Academy of Sciences nominated Gasprinsky for the Nobel Peace Prize.

At that time, the memorial museum was part of the Khan's Palace Museum. In the early 1930s, with the onset of repressions by the Bolshevik regime, the ideas and works of Gasprinsky were banned. In 1932, the memorial house-museum and library were closed, and the exhibits and books disappeared, with only a small part preserved in the collections of the Palace Museum.

The revival of the museum began in the 1990s. According to the decision of the Crimean Regional Executive Committee dated May 8, 1990, it was planned to restore the memorial museum of the enlightener Gasprinsky in Bakhchisarai at 47a R. Luxembourg Street in the building of the former printing house. However, this decision was not immediately realized, as the building was used as a dormitory.

In 1999, the building was included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of History and Architecture. In 2000, restoration work began, and by March 2001, on the 150th anniversary of Gasprinsky's birth, the museum was officially opened.