Popular Local History Museum in the Arctic - a non-profit public institutions. The museum was opened June 24, 1999 - just in celebration of the centennial of the Arctic Murmansk region. Famous historical museum keeps a cultural heritage that is closely connected with the historical development of the Northern Fleet.

In October 1997, he signed a decree on the establishment of a new museum, followed by almost two years, museum staff prepares for the inauguration of the first exposure. For the opening of the museum of the city authorities have allocated a three-story building, erected in the mid-1930s. On the ground floor there is a room intended for outdoor children's museum, artists' studios, a lecture hall, and some fund storage premises. The second floor was equipped for exhibition space, which was joined by several exposition halls. In this room is the main exhibition of the museum, which is devoted to the history of the Navy and the entire city. On the third floor there are two rooms that are given to the needs of temporary exhibitions. Also on the third floor has a library, administrative offices and departments are intended for museum staff.

Home museum exhibition is located on the second floor and has three rooms in the area of ​​400 square meters. m. All the exhibits are of distribution according to several topics. In the museum you can visit the department, which is dedicated to the flora and fauna of the department, which tells about the construction of the Northern Fleet, entografichesky section, department, dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, as well as the department of modern history.

Special attention is removed by museum staff friendly and cooperative relations with various museum institutions, for which reason the third floor of two rooms for temporary exhibitions are devoted, but still never empty .  In this room, organized the exhibition, not only from its own funds and reservists, but also exhibitions, brought from other cities .  Often, the museum held several exhibitions at the same time .  In the premises of temporary exhibitions are often on display works of painters and photographers, craftsmen, represented by sewing, embroidery, floral, patchwork sewing .  In the historical museum and held professional exhibitions related to the holidays all sorts of professions .  For example, visitors can get acquainted with the products of the local bakery and exhibits different technical means, which are used in the work of police and firefighters .  In rooms designed for temporary exhibitions, regularly organizes presentations of international projects, which are held together with Norway and Russia .

Today the museum funds History Museum of the Arctic are composed of about 12 thousands of different items, because not so long ago the museum staff were just beginning to collect priceless museum collections.

In 2001, the city came from the St. Petersburg Institute of archeologists the material culture. In the course of the excavations the burial ground were found unique exhibits, which are directly linked with ritual burials northwestern European primitive tribes. The largest number of artifacts were presented in the museum.

The museum staff is increasingly trying to reflect in all exhibitions of the most critical stages of the formation of the city Polar and Kola Peninsula. All museum collections are constantly replenished, allowing for periodic review and transformation exhibitions. In 2002, in one of the departments of the museum was opened exhibition hall, which was dedicated to the flora and fauna of all the Kola Peninsula.

In 2000 he appeared in the museum department, which was called the Open Air Museum, where it is fashionable to see the naval and military equipment until our time.