Regional Museum of Local history
Location - Murmansk, Lenin Avenue, 90
The oldest museum of the Murmansk region, founded in 1926. Located in the building is a historical monument of the city. Engaged in acquisition, storage, popularization of historical and cultural monuments of the Murmansk region. Has 17 exposition halls.
The exhibition "The Nature of the Murmansk region" represented mineral wealth of the Kola Peninsula, the materials of the Kola ultradeep wells, the unit tunes in the Guinness Book of Records about the animal and plant world of the region. Exposure to the region's history contains archaeological monuments, authentic household items, tools of traditional crafts and Sami Pomors interiors of dwellings, churches and layouts Kola fortress trade items of the past centuries, the exhibits on the construction of the railway and the city of Murmansk.
The postwar period history of the region shows the materials for the restoration of the economy of the Murmansk region in the years 1945-1960, the economic development of the region (fishing, mining and chemical industry, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, energy, transport, agriculture and forestry), science and culture.