Museum of History of Pechenga District (P. Nickel)

The Northwest Museum of Russia, located at the junction of the borders of Russia, Norway and Finland, was established as a public museum and opened on July 21, 1985. Here you can see the authentic objects of life and culture of the indigenous people for these places - the Sami (Kol, Finnish, Norwegian), trace the history of the development of the largest copper-nickel deposit and the Pechenganikel plant, get acquainted with the activities of the northernmost Orthodox Trifono-Pechenga monastery, for the sake of one of its churches, the Russian-Norwegian border was laid, see the collection of cores of the famous Kola superdeep well, mined at a depth of 122 m, and things that belonged to the astronauts from here.

The total area of premises is 371 square meters. m. Exposition and exhibition area - 194 square meters. The area for storage of funds is 12 square meters. The total number of storage units is 3713. The collection of funds is carried out through the collection of museum staff and income from the population (donation).

List of services provided:

• identification, collection, storage, study and publication of museum objects and museum collections;
• Exposition and exhibition activities and excursion services for the population.

The list of permanent expositions operating on the basis of the institution:

• nature of the area and ecology;
• Sami culture and life;
• history of Trifono-Pechenga Monastery;
• military operations in the Arctic during the Soviet-Finnish War (1939-1940), as well as during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
• history of formation and restoration of MMC "Pechenganikel";
• exposition dedicated to Yu.A. Gagarin;
• Twin-Border Relations P. Nickel and Kirkenes (Norway);
• Kola super deep well.