The museum is located in the center of the Novopokrovskaya stanitsa, in a building that has historical value, as the childhood of the Soviet writer Arkady Alexeyevich Perventsev was spent here from 1905 to 1913.

The house belonged to Perventsev's grandfather, Andrey Nikanorovich Afanasyev, who participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. Over time, this house became a place for the intelligentsia of the stanitsa to gather. In the summer of 1903, Vladimir Mayakovsky visited the Afanasyevs, as his mother was a cousin of Lyubov Andreyevna Afanasyeva (Perventseva).

Over the years, the red general Khizhny and the white generals Erdel, Ulagai, Romanovsky, and Pokrovsky have visited here. The Afanasyev house was also frequented by many Kuban writers, such as Kronid Oboyshchikov, Sergey Khokhlov, Ivan Varavva, Viktor Likhonosov, and Vitaly Bakaldin.

The museum houses authentic documents, including maps that testify to the contribution of the Russian commander Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov to the strengthening of Russia's southern border. Among the unique exhibits of the museum are an amphora from ancient Greece, spinning wheels, a scythe, barn locks, an antique mirror, irons, bast shoes from the 1920s, and the famous Tula samovar from 1870. All these items are over 150 years old.