The State Literary Museum «XX Century»

The state literary Museum "XX century "(GLM" XX century") was established in 2007 on the basis of the Mikhail Zoshchenko apartment Museum by renaming the organization and approving a new concept. The Mikhail Zoshchenko Museum, in turn, opened 15 years earlier, in 1992, in the famous Writer's house on the Griboyedov canal, 9.

The exhibition area of apartment No. 119 is about 45 square meters, it is two rooms with a permanent exhibition. The Mikhail Zoshchenko Museum is the smallest apartment Museum in Saint Petersburg and the only literary Museum in the city dedicated to the writer of the Soviet period and the life of the intelligentsia in the difficult era of the 1930s – 1950s. The Museum has preserved the original furniture of Mikhail Zoshchenko's office. This is a great rarity for St. Petersburg museums of a literary profile.