The museum is located on the street Intercession in the house, which in the early 1900s, the artist's father built. Marc Chagall had spent his teenage years. This period in his biography he wrote in his autobiography "My Life." The museum displays objects of everyday life turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as copies of archival documents and works of the artist, telling about the life of Marc Chagall's family and his parents in Vitebsk.