The A. S. Pushkin Museum is a small and cozy cultural institution recognized as a monument of national historical significance. It is part of the Crimean Literary and Artistic Memorial Museum-Reserve. This museum-reserve also includes Chekhov's house in Gurzuf at the foot of the Dzhenevez-Kaya rock, the "Chekhov and Crimea" section in Yalta, and the "Omyur" dacha.

The house-museum is located in the village of Gurzuf on the territory of the "Pushkino" sanatorium, in a building that once belonged to Duke Richelieu, the governor-general of Novorossiya and Bessarabia. The history of the museum's creation was long and complicated. It first opened in the 1930s at the initiative of Soviet literary scholar B. V. Tomashevsky, whose memorial study was recently added to the museum's exhibition.

After World War II, the museum was closed for a long time and reopened only in 1989. Over the next 50 years, the museum changed hands multiple times, fighting for its right to exist. It was part of the Yalta State Historical and Literary Museum, then became a municipal enterprise, and later a cultural institution. Since the early 2000s, the museum has gained republican significance and has become part of the Crimean Literary and Artistic Memorial Museum-Reserve.

The old two-story house in Gurzuf Bay, where the museum is now located, was built by Duke Armand de Plessis de Richelieu between 1808 and 1811. Due to its unusual architecture, it was called an airy castle. The house changed many owners and hosted many guests, but it became famous due to Pushkin's visit. In the 19th century, Crimea attracted many representatives of the creative intelligentsia, and Pushkin was no exception.

Alexander Sergeyevich visited Gurzuf with General N. N. Raevsky's family and stayed there for only three weeks. However, this time was enough to create the exhibition that opened in the 1930s. The museum is now located on the territory of the "Pushkino" sanatorium, which also features a picturesque 19th-century park with numerous monuments and busts of Pushkin, as well as a cypress tree that the poet mentioned in his works.

The A. S. Pushkin Museum is small but rich in interesting information. Its collection is of particular interest to historians, philologists, and local historians engaged in Pushkin studies and the history of Crimea in the early 19th century. The museum has six halls where the atmosphere of ancient times is recreated with unique furniture, personal belongings of the poet, paintings, photographs, and household items from the early 19th century. It also features lifetime editions of Pushkin inspired by the Crimean nature.

The poet considered Gurzuf the "cradle" of the novel "Eugene Onegin" and, while on vacation, wrote more than a dozen poems and began work on the poem "The Prisoner of the Caucasus."