The Museum expositions have over 56 thousand items, including almost 17 thousand items of the main collection. The collections reflect the pre-historic times of the island culture of the 3d-1st millennium BC, materials on history of the Solovetsky Monastery and its estates, etc.

Of great value are the following collections: architectural and building details (the 16th - 19th centuries), the Pomor women’s costumes, Vasily Chalkov’s icons (the 17th century), archeological artifacts from the Solovetsky Archipelago and other White Sea islands sites (the 6th - 1st millennium BC), objects and documents on history of the Solovetsky Camp of Special Designation.

Under the Museum-Reserve authority are more than 900 monuments of archeology, history, architecture, hydro-technical and road constructions of the 16th - 20th centuries. To the south of the Blagopoluchiye Bay there survived two buildings of former hotels –The Arkhangelskaya (1836) and The Preobrazhenskaya (1860) hotels. At the Seldyany Cape there are some household buildings made of boulders in 1842 – the workshop to melt down fat and a barn to keep the product and others. Of much interest are the monuments of hydro-engineering. Close to the Kremlin walls an originally designed dock was built of granite in 1843-1846; a natural water over-fall was used instead of pumps there. A complicated system of man-made canals is astonishing; it connects more than 50 lakes of the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island.

Annually tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims come to Solovki. Among the guests of honour at the Solovetsky Archipelago were the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexei II, the King of Sweden Karl XVII Gustav, Prince of Wales, diplomats and senators from many countries. For more details...

It is the main architectural monument on the Solovetsky Islands. The foundation of the Monastery is associated with the names of the Reverend Fathers Savvaty, Zosima and German, it was built in 1429-1436. The Monastery played the role of the centre of Russian colonization of the Pomor Lands (the White Sea coastal areas), it used to be a stronghold of the Russian Power in the north, and finally it was used as a place of exile of those who disagreed the government or was considered a religious criminal. The Solovetsky Monastery renewed its activity in 1990. For more details...

The Bolshoi Solovetsky Island, the biggest in the White Sea and of the Archipelago, is 219 sq.km. Just here the Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Transfiguration of Our Saviour) Solovetsky Monastery, the main sight of the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island and the Archipelago, is situated. For more details...

Five kilometers south-east off the Blagopoluchiye (Bountiful) Bay there are a group of islands called Zayatskye (Hare’s) Islands covered mainly by tundra plants. In this group the Bolshoi Zayatsky Island stands aside, though its area is not more than 1.5 sq. km. Here a pagan sanctuary, the biggest in the Russian European North, is situated, making a complex of cult and sepulchral structures dating back to the II-I millennium BC. For more details...

The Bolshaya Muksalma, the third biggest island of the Solovetsky Archpelago, is to the east of the Solovetsky Island. Cyclopean dam of boulders of more than 1 km long was built in 1866 to connect Muksalma and the Bolshoi Solovetsky Island. For more details...

The Island of Anzer is the second big island of the Solovetsky Archipelago. At the beginning of the 17th century Eleazar, a professed man in the Monastery, founded the first hermitage on the Anzer Island which became a place of solitude for the Monastery hermits. On the shore of the lake, at the mouth of the Troitskaya Guba (Trinity Bay) a wooden Troitskaya (Trinity) Church and several cells for monks were built. Thanks to the patronage of the Tsar family the Hermitage had been independent from the Solovetsky Monastery for a long time. For more details...