The city of Kostomuksha traces its history from the emergence of iron ore deposits in the 1970-ies. The mill was built by 1984. According to statistics of the magazine "Expert", Karelsky Okatysh is the list of 200 largest companies of Russia, 30 leading companies in the North-West and top 20 enterprises of ferrous metallurgy on the number of products sold. It was the main city-forming enterprise of the city, the population, which is now 29 738 persons. 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 its activities in 1981, having the status of a public Museum, and in 1991. became a municipal. The basis of the collection are the materials devoted to the discovery of iron ore deposits, the construction of the plant, the construction of the city. A significant part is a collection of writers of Karelia. The Museum is a cultural Museum complex g. Kostomuksha. The building was renovated in 2006.

The main direction of local lore, history. The Museum houses the following collections: "the opening of the Kostomuksha iron ore Deposit", "the construction of the city and of plant", "collection of the writer Rugova YV", "Materials about the participants of the war and the partisans".

In a year the Museum is visited by more than 3, 5 thousand people. The Museum has 3 people, one of them researcher. The Museum covers an area of 200 sq. m. the archive contains 250 exhibits. In General, the Fund 3291 exhibits.

The Museum organizes annual exhibition, no less than 7-8 a year, the Museum partners are also the organizers of the annual exhibitions: Custom, Center of extracurricular activities, Kostomuksha reserve, Institute Lonnrot (Finland). His works here exhibited artists of Karelia, photographers, students of children's art school. Leo Lankinen.

Are and game program: "away in a village in Karelia", "the Day of memory of V. Ya. Rugova", "Day of memory and grief for the Victory Day". In addition, tours of Kostomuksha and mining and processing plant, and also in Vuokkiniemi village, which is famous performers of the rune-singers. It was founded in the 17th century and is located on the shores of lake superior shoreline of lake, near the town of Kostomuksha (50 kilometers). She is considered one of the national villages of Karelia. It is here were written by Finnish writer Elias Saga studies, many of the rune of "Kalevala" and has old houses, which are now monuments of culture.

Tour of the mining enterprise allows you to see the magnitude of this largest plant in North-West Russia. Now the company is ranked third in Russia in terms of production of iron ore pellets, it produces one-fifth of this product in the Russian Federation. Mostly consumer products plant metallurgical plant "Severstal", in the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region. But Kostomuksha the plant exports its products to USA, UK, China, Netherlands. The mill is now successfully expanding its power.

You can visit the observation deck in the career, to get acquainted with 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 due to which this Karelian earth was formed the city of Kostomuksha.