District Museum of Local Lore "White Sea Petroglyphs"

Mode of work of the museum:
Daily from 9.00 to 17.00, except Saturday and Sunday.
The exhibition "Sea culture of Pomors" is open all year round from 11.00 to 17.00, except Monday and Thursday.
In the navigation period additionally: one hour before the departure of the ship to the Solovetsky Islands (according to the schedule of the White Sea Sea Port).
The open-air exposition is the archaeological complex "White Sea petroglyphs": the museum organizes excursions from May 20 to September 30. A preliminary application for excursions is required in connection with the location of the complex in the vicinity of the city (7 km from Belomorsk).

Expositions:
- "Marine culture of the Pomors k. XIX c. at the beginning of the XX century." (The exposition is located in the pulm of the floating workshop, located at the very pier of the White Sea Sea Sea Port). - The exposition "Marine culture of Pomors k. XIX c. at the beginning of the XX century" is devoted to traditional crafts, their historical formation and development. The exposition presents photographs, documents, models of ships, genuine craft tools and their models, household items and household items from Pomeranian villages of the XIX century at the beginning of the XX century; the reconstruction of the seasonal Pomor dwelling - "Tony" was carried out. The exhibition is located in the pulm of the floating workshop, located at the very berth of the White Sea Sea Port, so it is very convenient for tourists, transit passengers traveling to the Solovetsky Islands.

Exhibitions:
Recent exhibitions:
Every year since 1996 opens for the period of the tourist season exhibition "Marine culture of the Pomor late IX - early XX centuries."

Areas of research:
- "History of sawmill enterprises in Pomorie",
- "Life and activity of the founder of Soroki factories - M.P.Belyayev",
- "History of the Komsomol and Pioneer Movement in Pomorie",
- "History of Sumposad Branch of the Archangel Society for the Study of the Russian North"

Participation of the museum in seminars, conferences and internships:
- 1996. - Courses of the educational and methodological center for training and retraining of personnel of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia in the group "Scientific employees of museums on fund work".

Educational programmes:
Separate classes and lectures on various topics of the school curriculum.

Cooperation with other museums:
Mutual exchange of exhibits at exhibitions with the museum-library in the village of Sueretsky, methodological assistance to employees in organizing work.

A brief history of the museum:
The beginning of the museum was laid by the activities of a group of enthusiasts to create a public local history museum in the city and open its first exhibition in 1961. In the results of the work of archaeologists under the leadership of Yu.A. Savvateev in the vicinity of Belomorsk in 1963 c 1965, a large accumulation of rock images of petroglyphs was revealed. In the same years, the construction of a protective house-pavilion began over the group of petroglyphs "Demon Tracks", discovered by A.M. Linevsky in 1926. After the completion of construction in 1968, a small exposition dedicated to the archaeological monuments of Karelia was opened there. Since this year, the museum has been called White Sea petroglyphs.