Herman Mikhailovich Kreps House-Museum

The Herman Mikhailovich Kreps House-Museum is located on the territory of the Lapland Nature Reserve in the Monchegorsk Municipal District. This is the first house of the reserve, which was built in the autumn of 1930 on the bank of the Chunozera, at the foot of the Yelnyun, where the first cordon and bathhouse were located. In the 1970s, the house was moved to the Chunozersk estate and a museum was organized in it.

Herman Mikhailovich Kreps is a real citizen of Lapland. He devoted most of his short but bright life to the study of the Kola Peninsula, was the organizer of the first agricultural station beyond the Arctic Circle and the main initiator of the creation of the northernmost reserve.

The museum's exposition includes stands with archival materials, manuscripts and photographs. Of great interest is the original of the first geobotanical map of the reserve, made by Kreps and his colleagues in the 20s of the last century, as well as the corner exposition, where Sami clothing and shoes are presented. An urn with the ashes of G.M. Kreps is buried next to the museum and a tombstone memorial plate is installed.

The museum can be visited independently and accompanied by a guide.