Museum and Exhibition Center Apatite, Prospekt Lenina, Murmansk oblast, Russia
The gloomy basement of this former NKVD (proto-KGB) building is now a museum dedicated to the unspeakable horrors that took place here. Look out for the Gulag map, the system of Soviet labour camps depicted.
Housed in the splendid Atashev Palace, this modest museum has a 2500-year-old bear amulet and an interesting exhibit on the Great Tea Trail.
Up on Resurrection Hill, this museum’s moderately interesting collection of old artefacts, clothing and recreations of old homes is well-presented, with placards in English.
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