Museum of the Murmansk Commercial Seaport

About museum

Museum of the History of the Murmansk Commercial Seaport, opened in September 2015 to mark the enterprise's 100th anniversary, is located on Portovoy Proezd next to the icebreaker museum 'Lenin', at the pontoon berth of the Murmansk marine terminal.
The museum was conceived so that residents of the North and visitors to the Arctic could learn more about the development of the port that gave rise to Murmansk.

The museum features an exhibition of a unique item — a panorama of Murmansk created by artist and local historian Yevgeny Fedorovich Bartold in 1933. Interestingly, the author conceived his work as a circle with a circumference of more than 12 meters. The painting is so large that exhibiting the original proved impossible; therefore visitors are shown eight studies as well as a reduced replica displayed fully unfolded.

Exhibits are arranged so that each section is dedicated to a particular milestone or historical theme. Moving from one display to another, the visitor seems to travel through time — creating a sense of the continuous history of the Murmansk Commercial Seaport.