The Ulyanov family lived in several houses around Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), and several of them have been preserved as museum spaces. The childhood home on Ulyanova Street is where the family spent much of Lenin's youth and where many key moments of his upbringing took place. The interior is carefully maintained to reflect the domestic life of a prosperous provincial official family of the 1870s and 1880s: dark wood furniture, patterned wallpaper, portraits on the walls.
The house forms part of the broader State Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve "Lenin's Homeland," which encompasses multiple sites across the city centre. A combined visit to the Lenin Memorial Centre and the family homes fills a solid half-day and gives context to both the man and the provincial Russian world that produced him.