Museum of History of the Murmansk Shipping Company was opened in 1977 in a small room, which was decorated exhibition tells about the history of the Navy. The first exhibition featured photographs, sports awards, albums, prizes and many other things and materials that were handed over to the museum ship's crew and that have a historical value. After almost 30 years of continuous successful work the museum has expanded, so at the moment a museum located on the street Volodarskaya.

Showcases and stands talk not only about the past but about the present development of the transport Arctic icebreaking fleet. A distinctive feature of the museum was the painting, which depicts a heroic and legendary scientist Otto Schmidt, at the time head of the very first expedition to the uncharted Arctic, as well as a brave captain Vladimir Voronin.

The museum has several exhibitions: "People and ships of the nuclear fleet", "Historical development of transport and icebreaker fleet", "the Company's tanker fleet," "Diorama of the Northern Sea Route." The exhibition "From Ermak to nuclear ice breakers" tells the story of the historical development of the Soviet icebreaker fleet, which includes the technical specifications and photos are not only steam, but also diesel-electric icebreakers, actively explore the extensive Arctic route.

The Museum of the History of the Murmansk Navy can consider a wide variety of devices that have been removed from the previously existing ships. Well visible distinctive sidelights taken from the ship "Volgograd" and a life preserver, which bears the signatures of all the members of the last of the crew. Here is a tool of the ship stoker from one of the last ships called "Volodarsky", presented in a rather primitive form of a shovel, and there are also two-meter heroic kochegarsky tongs and scrap.

The museum has presented a stand on the activities of the Murmansk seafarers in the course of development of Antarctica, which can be considered as a stuffed penguin entertaining for children.

On the stands of the museum exhibits photographs and portraits of explorers of the Arctic space. For example, a portrait gallery of people shown images of heroic sailors, so often there are cases where relatives of the sailors come to the museum just to honor the memory of their loved ones.

In the halls of the museum has a large number of different models of transport vessels and icebreakers, whose permanent collection is supplemented. One of the unique collection is a collection of microscopic models, which were produced at a scale of 1: 500. Its author was a famous resident of the city of Murmansk Vladimir Samokhin. His works have been brought into an unprecedented delight visitors to the museum.

Considerable interest of visitors and calls "Diorama development of Northern sea way", where you can see the look of territorial expanse of the Arctic Ocean and see the kind of cargo vessel before unloading, figurines sailors and incredible northern lights in the sky over the Arctic.

It is worth noting that the museum not only tells about the history of the Navy, but also serves as a meeting place for veterans of the Company. Since 1999, the museum is constantly meets in the walls of the participants of the polar convoys from Moscow, St. Petersburg, United States, England and other countries.

In 2001, the museum began its work a new exhibition called "Pole - 2000", which was represented by about 50 colorful photos of one of the Murmansk photographers Lev Fedoseyev on the theme of the campaign to the cold North Pole on an icebreaker "Yamal". To date, the exhibition expands its collection. Of particular interest are presented photos Golovin N. "Colors of the Arctic."

Today, the museum continues to look for more and more new forms of work with numerous visitors, thereby bonding together the true connoisseurs of the history of the hardest of Arctic exploration.