The Murmansk Regional Art Museum is located in the historic center of Murmansk on Komintern Street, in one of the oldest stone buildings in the city, near the Five Corners Square.

The building of the Transport Consumer Society (TPC) began construction in May 1927, and it was ready just four months later. At that time, the region was actively developing and soon became one of the industrial areas of the country.

In 1927, Komintern Street was a road lined with wooden houses on either side. Against this backdrop, the three-story stone building appeared like a "skyscraper," astonishing visitors. It became a center of public life: the first two floors housed a store, while the third floor contained a cafeteria.

Journalist and writer Tatyana Tess, who visited Murmansk in 1929, described the TPC building as "a vast and echoing department store, standing out among the other little houses."

During the Great Patriotic War, the TPC building suffered significant damage, including the destruction of its glass dome, which was never restored.

The transformation of the building into a museum began in 1987 when it was handed over to the Culture Department of the Regional Executive Committee for major repairs and reconstruction into an exhibition hall.

The establishment of the Museum of Fine Arts became an important event for the cultural life of the Murmansk region. It is the only art museum in the Arctic.

On December 19, 1989, the first exhibition hall in Murmansk opened, timed to coincide with the VII zonal exhibition "Artists of the North." On January 17, 1990, the hall became the Murmansk Regional Art Museum, and works from the Murmansk Regional Local History Museum were transferred to its collection.

Today, the museum's collection includes over ten thousand exhibits. It features paintings by artists from the 18th and 21st centuries, a rich collection of graphics, especially from Leningrad artists, and a significant collection of works by Murmansk masters. Among the sculptural exhibits are works by S. Konenkov, and in the decorative and applied arts section, samples of Russian artistic crafts.

The museum engages in scientific and methodological activities, as well as actively conducts educational and pedagogical work. It has an information and educational center, and since 2004, a multimedia cinema has been operating with educational programs and films on art.

The permanent exhibition "Domestic Fine Arts of the 18th and 20th Centuries" includes several sections. The first is dedicated to Russian art of the 18th and 19th centuries, where works by Kharlampy Konstantdi, Ilya Zankovsky, Mikhail Klodt, and Johann Keler attract special interest.

The section dedicated to Russian art of the 20th century includes paintings, graphic works, sculptures, and decorative and applied arts. Here, one can see works by Boris Ioganson, Dmitry Mochalsky, Evsei Moiseenko, and others.

The graphics collection is the most extensive in the museum. The exhibition features works by Moscow, Leningrad, and regional graphic artists, such as Vladimir Favorisky, Ivan Pavlov, Georgy Vereisky, and others. The graphic works of Murmansk artists, including Mikhail Kirin, Tatyana Kovalyova, and others, are also of interest.

The museum's sculptural collection is small but includes works by renowned masters of the 20th century: Sergey Konenkov, Mikhail Tkhamashev, and others.

The Kola North has always attracted creative people. In the 19th century, Russian artists came here, and in the 1930s, a large group of masters arrived in the North.

The section dedicated to Murmansk artists begins with works by the oldest masters of the region, such as Vasily Baranov and Nikolai Morozov. It also features works by Nikita Dukhno, Vladimir Kumashov, and others.

Masters of decorative and applied arts known beyond the region include Tatyana Chernomor and Evgeny Baranov. The tapestries and fabric paintings by Victoria Zubitskaya are distinguished by their lyricism and originality. Raisa Chebaturina, the chief artist of the Northern Fleet Theater, is known for her sketches for costumes and decorations.

The section dedicated to Murmansk artists reflects the current state of visual arts on the Kola Peninsula.

The exhibition concludes with works of decorative and applied arts representing northern crafts: wood painting, clay toy making, bone carving, and others. Of particular interest are Pomor kozuli, dough figurines baked on the Ter coast of the White Sea.

The museum's permanent exhibition showcases the development of Russian visual arts from the 18th century to the present day.

The museum has four exhibition halls, a music parlor, a storage facility, and a library.