The Museum of Life and Crafts of the mining population is located in one of the most interesting buildings in Nizhny Tagil, known as 'Gospodsky Dom'. This is a federal architectural monument dating back to the late classicism era of the first half of the 19th century.

'Gospodsky Dom' is a two-story building with a rusticated basement and a portico on the upper level, supported by four columns with luxurious capitals adorned with stucco and a decorated cornice. The house, along with the stable yard, carriage house, and garden, formed an estate that extended to the floodplain of the Tagil River. It is believed that the building's design was created by architect A. P. Chebotarev.

The first owner was the widow of a 3rd guild merchant, Evdokia Deryabina. Later, the estate was sold to the Management of Factories of the Nizhny Tagil District. Here, distinguished guests from Moscow and St. Petersburg were received, and later the house served as an official apartment for the administration and engineers of the Demidov factory.

During the Soviet era, the interior of the house was converted into communal apartments for families of workers from the V. V. Kuibyshev Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant, previously an ironworking and foundry plant. It was in this house that the famous work by Raphael, 'Madonna del Popolo', was discovered in 1924, which is now exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts.

In the early 1980s, the building was transferred to the museum, after which restoration began. Restoration work lasted ten years, and in August 1997, the Museum of Life and Crafts of the mining population opened here. The exhibition was developed by researchers T. N. Petrukhina and E. R. Merkusheva, while the artistic concept was created by V. M. Savin, director of the 'White Square' association from Yekaterinburg. In 1998, the museum's exhibition and its creators were awarded the regional museum prize named after O. E. Kler.

How did the factory workers of Tagil live? And how about those who managed them? The interiors of the homes of representatives of different social classes, folk clothing, traditional occupations and crafts, unique birch bark products, chests, embroidery, and belts, all this can be seen in the famous Gospodsky Dom.