The 120 m² museum is divided into four areas:
- Virtual Salon
- Biographical section Anton Chekhov
- Sociocultural relations Badenweiler-Russia,History of the Chekhov Archive, international literary life in the spa town
- Famous writers who are connected to Badenweiler through their lives and works. For example Stephen Crane, Jawaharlal Nehru, Justinus Kerner, Johann Peter Hebel, Heinrich Hoffmann, Herman Hesse, René Schickele, Annette Kolb, Hermann Bruch, Kasimir Edschmid, Ingeborg Hecht-Studniczka, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Gustav Faber, Gabriele Wohmann, Rüdiger Safranski, Martin Walser.