In the city of Kondopoga in June 1981 there is a public municipal Museum. It was opened as a Museum of the local mining and processing plant. The basis of his collection were the materials telling about the discovery of iron ore deposits in the Kostomuksha region, the construction of the plant and the city, as well as a collection of writers of Karelia. In the year of the Museum takes about 6 thousand visitors. The Museum has a total area of 200 sqm and is located on ulitsa Proletarskaya in the house 13. The Museum collection includes more than 2,000 exhibits. They are collected by the inhabitants of the city of archival documents, coin collections, ethnographic artifacts, paintings and drawings, samples of products of the enterprises of the district. In the future it is planned to create new exposition of the Museum of paper. Part of the Museum now includes the monument of the XVIII century, this building wooden tent-roofed architecture Onega school - the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God.

One of the first exhibits of the Museum - "History of Kondopoga and the Kondopoga district" - tells how Kondopoga has evolved from a village into an industrial city on lake Onega. Historical data of the population of this area have existed since the fifteenth century. The most famous village was built in the eighteenth century, when Kondopoga was a transit point, from here sent a marble in Petersburg, as in ships, and through the land. Here in 1757 -1764, were discovered deposits of marble, they were in the villages of Tudia and White Mountain. Also in the area of Kondopoga have found deposits of iron ore, it began to develop and to deliver to the plant in Petrovskaya Sloboda (Petrozavodsk), have also been found deposits of copper ore were sending on an iron smelting plant in the Olonets gubernia of the Russian Empire.

In the Museum you can now see samples of local marble and products of metallurgical plants. This is a Cannonball, furnace doors, axes and much more. Plants that have operated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the territory of this region influenced the rapid development and construction of the city of Kondopoga. Now it is an industrial city, was built first in Karelia hydroelectric power plant, paper mill.

Interesting exposition "Life and culture of the Karelians"; it presents household items, tools, clothing Karelian people. The exhibits tell about folk crafts, the crafts and cultural traditions of the indigenous inhabitants of the Karelian region and these unique items are of great interest to visitors. For example, a very interesting collection of old irons (iron, coal, rubel and rolling pin for Ironing) - here you can find all the items telling the history of the improvement of this familiar everyday objects.

Authentic witnesses of the history of the area during the great Patriotic war - the objects and documents of the war period. The war in the capital were the Nazi occupying forces, there were fights. Collected here letters, personal belongings, awards soldiers, photographs and documents remind us of the events of those distant years.

In the Museum there is an exposition which introduces the post-war city - "Big Kondopoga". In 1959 Kondopoga became the all-Union Komsomol building, the city began to develop rapidly. In the hall the interior of the 1960-ies, in it you will see and the phonograph, and sewing machine "singer", a round table and a snack bar, and many other things, reminiscent of socio-cultural life of this period.

The Museum has various exhibitions. One of them is called "Treasure story", here are the coins, paper money of the USSR and foreign countries. Often the Museum hosts exhibitions of works by painters of Karelia, but the staff are always happy to organize exhibitions of the works of other artists. The Museum organizes educational activities for students on the following topics: a Journey into the ancient world, Carving and painting masters of Karelia, the Journey of the coin, Life and culture of the Karelians, From Candestroy to modern Kondopoga, Artists of Karelia. Here you can learn how to weave products from birch bark, to make toys, to learn Karelian painting on wood.