The museum opened in 1986 in the home of Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893–1967), a famous poet, novelist, playwright, and professor of literature at Kaunas and Vilnius Universities. The museum collection is made of authentic things of the writer V. Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893–1967): furniture, books, pictures, as well as various materials associated with the writer's creation, life and personality.. Everything is grouped by the main sphere of V. Mykolaitis-Putinas' activities: as writer, translator, scientist, prosaist, and pedagogue.

In three memorial rooms (the study, the parlor and the sleeping-room) the authentic atmosphere is restored. Their furniture, books, pictures tell about rich surroundings of the writer's home.