Museum of History, Culture and Everyday Life of the Kola Sami

In 1962, the museum of the history of the Kola Sami appeared on the basis of the Lovozersk Secondary School. At first, it was a small exhibition, the father of which was the geography teacher Pavel Polikarpovich Yuryev.

Within the walls of the school, they collected everything that can tell about the life of the indigenous small-numbered people of the Kola Peninsula. Over the years, the museum grew, there were more exhibits, and in 1968 it became a territorial department of the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 1990, after moving to the building of the former Lovozersky district House of Culture, a modern exhibition was designed, which can be seen today. The total area became 496.6 square meters, the exhibition area-320.5 square meters.

The two main "attractions" of the museum are the archaeological collection, which has a rare exhibit-a stone with petroglyphs dating back to the first millennium BC, and a collection of applied art and household items of the Sami people. Also interesting are the interior of the tupa (a wooden Sami house of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), a team of deer of the twentieth century with stuffed animals, traditional Sami clothing and reindeer herders ' clothing, a model of a reindeer breeding base of the late twentieth century. All there are more than 660 exhibits. Main departments: Ancient history of the Sami people. Development of the Lovozersky district in the 1920s-1930s. Rear — to the front.

The Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Economic and cultural development of the district in the 1950s and 1980s. Development of reindeer husbandry-a traditional branch of the Sami economy. The life of the small peoples of the Kola North. But the museum is not only engaged in exhibition activities. The club "Young Local Historian", the folklore Komi ensemble "Izhma", the club "Chepes Sami" work with him, master classes are held and even an evening meeting in memory of the victims of political repression "For whom the bell tolls...".