The museum's exhibition is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian poet Evgeny Abramovich Boratynsky (1800, 1844) and his descendants, based on the family archive. In the museum halls, one can see lifetime editions and personal belongings of E.A. Boratynsky.

The museum is located in a restored ancient noble estate that belonged to three generations of Boratynsky descendants, who lived here from 1869 to 1918. Evgeny Abramovich himself never lived or visited this house; it was purchased by his son.

The museum was opened on March 21, 1977, initially as a museum of Kazan secondary school No. 34. The initiator of its creation was Vera Georgievna Zagvozkina (1924, 1994). In 1981, the museum received state status.

In 1991, the museum was relocated to the western wing of the Boratynsky estate, and in 2009, the main estate house was transferred to the operational management of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. From May 2012 to September 2015, restoration work was carried out in the museum.

One of the museum's areas, the "White Hall," is dedicated to Evgeny Abramovich's great-granddaughter, Olga Alexandrovna Ilyina-Boratynskaya, who lived in this house and was known as a poet of the Silver Age and a writer of the Russian diaspora.

In the house of Nikolai Evgenievich Boratynsky, the Blue Room served as a dining room, where visitors can learn about the childhood and youth of Evgeny Abramovich.

The Pink Room was used as a nursery during the life of Nikolai Evgenievich Boratynsky and later as a classroom. Its last inhabitant was Evgeny Abramovich's great-grandson, artist Alexander Alexandrovich Boratynsky, who lived only 19 years.

The museum halls also feature etchings by V.A. Zhukovsky, works by N.I. Feshin, N.M. Sapozhnikova, A.I. Fomin, A.A. Boratynsky, a unique lifetime portrait of L.N. Tolstoy, a portrait of the poet's younger brother, Kazan governor Irakliy Boratynsky (1802, 1859), a writing desk where, according to family legend, Alexander Pushkin may have written during his visit to Kazan in September 1833, as well as family photographs of the Boratynskys.