Pomor House

About museum

In 2021 the Municipal Budgetary Institution "Kemi Museum" took over management of the last remaining merchant's house in Kemi. The building was constructed by merchant and timber industrialist Alexander Evgenyevich Dyatlev in the early 1900s. Some of its rooms were rented by the Kemi Maritime School, which trained future prides of northern seafaring such as Dolgoborodin, Lvov, Ryntsyn and Pavel Akimovich Ponomarev, captain of the first nuclear icebreaker "Lenin." After the Revolution the house housed an orphanage, and from 1963 it was an evening school. Preserving its beautiful exterior and the antique arches reminiscent of those found in churches, as well as the massive staircase to the second floor, the museum has staged a number of exhibitions dedicated to the lives and activities of the people who lived in this house.