Exposition of museum shows development of Ukrainian literature in chronological order from XI century up to our days. The collection has 5 thousands exhibits, which include black-letter books (for example first book printed in Slavic letters by Ivan Fedorov), manuscripts, early printed books, personal possessions of writers, photos, etc. The museum is situated in an old building which is a sample of architecture of XIX century which used to be Collegium of Pavel Galagan.