Regional Museum of the city of Murmansk is the oldest Museum of the Murmansk region, which occurred on October 17, 1926. The Museum is located in a building that has become a historical monument of the city. The Museum includes: the storage, acquisition and promotion of historical monuments of the Murmansk region. The Museum has 17 exhibition halls.

The establishment of the Museum began in the early 1920-ies. In 1924 in a small House reindeer herders and fishermen was established regional area, the initiator of which was made by Professor G. A. Kluge, who has assembled his own team for the extensive study of the Murmansk region. In 1926, the head of the Museum was Mikhailov Mikhail.

On the day of its opening, the Museum has provided visitors with about 500 items and more than 800 books. Before the beginning of the great Patriotic war Museum funds was about 3 thousand units of storage, and the library consisted of about 3, 2 thousands of books. During the war library and Museum funds were urgently evacuated to the city of Monchegorsk, although some of them were lost.
In the spring of 1945, the Museum returned to his hometown. In 1957, he held the Grand opening of a new exhibition in a modern building.
To establish a permanent Museum exhibition period lasted from 1960 to 1992. The Museum staff with incredible activity collected monuments of spiritual and material culture of the region, making travel to various villages, towns and cities, and also engaged in processing collections, made plans for follow-up exposures.

During 1983-1986, in the Museum building underwent thorough repair and restoration work. The task of restoring the exhibition was entrusted to a team led by the Director Pozhidaeva Vladimir Alexandrovich. Fall 8 November 1986 significantly renovated Museum was again ready to receive visitors. In the period from 1989 to 1992 has been the construction of a new exposition called "the Murmansk region during the 1945-1992 period".

The exposition "the Nature of the Murmansk region" tells the story of the rich Kola Peninsula, it is possible to consider the materials about the famous Kola superdeep borehole, which is listed in the Guinness Book of records, as well as learn more about the flora and fauna of the region. Here presents: dry aquarium called "Life in the Barents sea" diorama "rookery" and "Animals of the sub-Arctic with a beautiful imitation of the Northern lights. Exhibited materials about the riches of the White and Barents seas, as well as the activities of Kandalaksha, Lapland reserves, the Polar research Institute of Oceanography and fisheries and more.

The exhibition, which tells about the historical development of the region, devoted to the monuments of archeology, cultural industries guns Pomors and the Sami, the true household aspect of life, the interiors of dwellings, objects of trade, layouts Kola fortress and churches, as well as exhibits on the construction of the Murmansk city and the railway in it.

In the Museum there are materials telling about the revolutionary activities in the Murmansk region, and the rise of industry in the years of collectivization during the 1920s and 1930s, the development of the famous Northern sea route, the formation of the North sea fleet and the defense of the area during the great Patriotic war.

About the development of the region in the postwar years can be found in the materials, 1945-1960, which indicate the pace of recovery of the regional economy, culture and science. Here are the personal belongings of Gagarin Yu. a., items flagship during the Antarctic expeditions, documents on awarding the Murmansk region honorable order of Lenin in 1966 and the award of the Murmansk glory of the hero city in 1985.

The last section is devoted to the trends in social, economic and political spheres of the region, since 1985 to the present day.