Murmansk Museum of Local Lore
Founded in 1926, the Murmansk Museum of Local Lore is the oldest cultural institution on the Kola Peninsula. The institution is actively engaged in collecting, storing and popularizing the cultural heritage of the Murmansk region. The museum's collection includes more than 160 thousand exhibits, including icons of the XVII century, a collection of handwritten books, including the oldest one, The Lives of the Founders of the Solovetsky Monastery of Zosima and Savvati, 1548; a collection of core samples from the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a herbarium of rare and endemic plants. The Regional Museum of Local lore is popular not only among residents of Murmansk, but also among tourists
Sobashnikova Elena Pavlovna – Director of the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore.
Address: 183038, Murmansk, Lenina avenue, 90
Tel.: +7 (8152) 422-697
Email: mokm@com.mels.ru
Murmansk State Regional Special Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
The Murmansk Library for the Visually Impaired is the only regional information center for people with complete or partial visual impairment. It was founded in 1967. Currently, the Library has more than 80 thousand publications in formats accessible to the blind and visually impaired. The fund includes audio books on audio cassettes, flash cards, Relief-Dot Braille Printing books, flat-printed books, including those with enlarged font, tactile books and periodicals. A special part of the fund is documents on typhlology. Since 2009, work has been underway to create an electronic library of audio books. The Library's readers are more than 1,700 people from preschoolers to the elderly.
Kireeva Natalia Vladimirovna – Director of the Murmansk State Regional Specialized Library for the Visually Impaired
Address: 183025, Murmansk, Shevchenko street, 26
Tel.: +7 (8152) 539-924
Email: mosbs@mail.ru
Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater
Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater was founded in 1933 in Kirovsk, Murmansk region by a group of creative young people from Leningrad. Now the theater's repertoire includes more than 50 plays: Russian folk tales, legends of the Sami and the best pieces by modern playwrights for puppet theaters. The theater is a regular participant and organizer of numerous international and All-Russian festivals. With the support of the regional government in 2023, the puppet theater for the first time held the international Polar Owl festival uniting 16 theaters from Russia and Belarus.
Sukhanov Evgeny Vladislavovich – Director of the Murmansk Regional Puppet Theater
Address: 183038, Murmansk, Lenina avenue, 27
Tel.: +7 (8152) 403-051
Email: murmansk-theater@yandex.ru
Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library
Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library is the largest information and cultural center of the region, providing public access to national and international information resources, preserving and developing traditional book culture. The universal fund of the library has more than 1.2 million publications in print, as well as in audiovisual and electronic form. The library has the largest collection of literature in the region in all branches of knowledge. This includes its own and acquired databases, a collection of publications about the Murmansk region, including in the Sami language, as well as a unique collection of rare books, which contains editions of the XVII–early XX centuries. In 2020, the Center for Contemporary Art 21A and the information and educational center Planetarium were created on the basis of the library.
Baskakova Svetlana Zosimovna – Director of the Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library.
Address: 183038, Murmansk, Sofi Perovskoy street, 21a
Tel.: +7 (8152) 454-805
Email: ruslib@mgounb.ru
Murmansk Regional Philharmonic Society
The Murmansk Regional Philharmonic is one of the youngest in the country. In 1975, the concert and variety bureau, which successfully operated in Murmansk, was transformed into the regional Philharmonic. Today, the Philharmonic's creative staff consists both of mature and accomplished and just beginning their way in art young musicians — high-class masters and graduates of leading Russian conservatories. They have an extensive repertoire, including Russian and foreign classics, spiritual, folk music, pieces by contemporary composers. The philharmonic collectives are well known to music lovers: the Light People ensemble, the ART CINEMA Quartet, the Strings duet, as well as the Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra created in 1999.
Victoria Vladislavovna Chachina – Director of the Murmansk Regional Philharmonic. Awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland II class.
Address: 183038, Murmansk, Sofi Perovskoy street, 3
Tel.: +7 (8152) 994-332
Email: murmansound@mail.ru
Murmansk Regional Art Museum
The Murmansk Regional Art Museum was established in 1990. Today Museum's collection has more than eight thousand units in the main fund and two thousand units in the scientific and auxiliary fund. There are paintings of the XVIII, XIX and XX centuries, a collection of graphics, including a huge collection of graphics by the Leningrad artists. The House of Crafts presents samples of artistic crafts of Russia. Every year the museum organizes a large number of various exhibitions, including with the participation of federal and regional museums: the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Historical Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Karelia, Tver Art Gallery and other museums of our country.
A significant part of the museum's collection is a collection of works by Murmansk artists. The museum has a permanent exhibition of Russian fine art of the XVIII–XX centuries. The exhibition area is 787.9 m2; the warehouse area is 205.3 m2. More than 60 exhibitions are opened annually and visited by more than 50 thousand people.
Olga Aleksandrovna Yevtyukova – Director of the Murmansk Regional Art Museum
Address: 183038, Murmansk, Kominterna street, 13
Tel.: +7 (8152) 450-385
Email: info@artmmuseum.ru
