Kostomuksha City traces its history from the appearance of iron-ore deposit in 1970 .  The plant was built by 1984 .  According to statistics of the journal "Expert" plant "Karelian Pellet" it is in the list of 200 largest companies of Russia, the top 30 companies in the North-west, and the 20 best plants of ferrous metallurgy in the number of sales .  It was the main city-forming enterprise of the city population, which now stands at 29,738 people .  It is therefore not surprising that the museum of the city of Kostomuksha was opened as a museum of mining and processing plant .  He began his activity in 1981, having the status of a public museum in 1991 .  He became municipal .  At the heart of the collection are the materials dedicated to the discovery of iron ore deposits, construction of the plant, the construction of the city .  A significant part of the collection of writers occupy Karelia .  The museum is located in the cultural and museum complex g .  Kostomuksha .  The building was renovated in 2006 .

The basic direction - local lore, historical. The museum collections are located as follows: "The opening of the Kostomuksha iron ore deposit," "City Building and Works," "Collection writer Rugoeva Ya", "Materials on the participants of the war and the guerrillas."

In the year the museum is visited by more than 3, 5 thousand people. The museum has 3 people, one researcher. The museum covers an area of ​​200 square meters. m. The archive is stored 250 exhibits. In 3291 exhibits of the main fund.

The museum organizes annual exhibitions, at least 7-8 per year, the museum partners also act as organizers of the annual exhibitions: Customs, Centre for extracurricular activities, Kostomuksha Reserve, Lönnrot Institute (Finland). His works are exhibited artists of Karelia, photographers, students of Children's Art School. Leo Lankinen.

Wires and game programs: "Away in the Karelian village", "Day of Remembrance of VY Rugoeva "," memorial day for the Day of Victory. " In addition, guided tours of Kostomuksha and GOK, as well as the village Voknavolok, famous artists rune-singers. It is based in the 17th century and is located on the shores of Lake Superior Kuito, near the town of Kostomuksha (50 kilometers). It is considered one of the national Karelian villages. It is here and has been recorded by the Finnish writer Elias Lönnrot many runes "Kalevala", as well as preserved old houses, is now a cultural monuments.

Tour of the mining and processing enterprise allows you to see the scale of the largest plant of the North-West of Russia. Now the company ranks third in Russia in terms of production of iron ore pellets, it produces one-fifth of this production in the Russian Federation. The main consumers of plant products Metallurgical Plant "Severstal" in Cherepovets in the Vologda region. But Kostomukshsky Plant exports its products in the US, UK, China, the Netherlands. The plant is now successfully building up its capacity.

You can visit the observation deck of his career, will get acquainted with all the technological processes at the plant. At the end of the tour you can take the memory of a small Karelian iron-ore pellets, which contains about 64-66% iron and through which on this earth was formed Karelian town of Kostomuksha.