Музей-усадьба В. Г. Белинского, Literary museum estate in Belinsky, Russia

The V. G. Belinsky Estate Museum comprises three buildings in Belinsky: the wooden Belinsky family house on a stone foundation with seven rooms and a kitchen, the former Chembar district school, and the former house of merchant F. I. Antyushin. The family house holds a memorial exhibition, the school recreates classroom interiors, and the merchant's house displays a literary exhibition.

The museum opened in June 1938 in the wooden house where Vissarion Belinsky lived from 1816 to 1825, created with support from Nadezhda Krupskaya; its first director was Alexander Khramov. In 1942 the former Chembar district school, where Belinsky studied from 1822 to 1825, was transferred to the museum. In May 1969 the house-museum became the Belinsky Estate Museum, and since 1975 it has been a branch of the Penza region literary-memorial museum association.

The estate takes its name from a major literary critic whose writings shaped Russian literature in the 1800s, and his personal spaces remain on view for visitors to experience. The rooms show how an intellectual of that era lived and worked, giving insight into the world of Russian letters during that period.

The museum occupies three separate buildings: the Belinsky family house, the former Chembar district school and the former Antyushin merchant house. The literary displays are in the Antyushin house, so allow time to move between buildings. The house is wooden on a stone foundation with seven rooms and a kitchen, and the school rooms are recreated as classrooms.

Two sculptures stand on the grounds. The bronze "Belinsky the Gymnasium Student" was installed in 1971. In 1992 the sculpture "Zhuravushka" (Little Crane), by V. P. Penzin, was moved here from the former Chembar tourist camp; the crane is the town's symbol and appears on its coat of arms.