In 1949 due to the centenary of admiral Makarov the MSI received the honour to be named the Admiral Makarov Mykolayiv Shipbuilding Institute. The same year the administration of the institute made a decision on the creation of the admiral Makarov’s cabinet. Associate professor S. Y. Afanasievlooked for the exhibits and designed the exposition. Since 1949 till 1954 there were gathered about 75 exhibits, among which there were such rarities: 
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The drawings of the pipelines in the engine rooms and stokeholds of the first rank cruiser Admiral Makarov, performed on January 25, 1908;
- The diary of Ulashevich who was the head engineer of the ice-breakerYermac (1901);
- The menu of the festive supper on the ice-breaker Yermac dated June 11, 1901;
- The scores of the music compositions devoted to the memory of admiral Makarov;
- Makarov’s books “The Yermac in the Ice”, “The ReasoningsConcerningtheQuestionsofthe Maritime Tactics”.
At the same time the models of the ice-breaker Yermac, the corvette “Vityaz” and the battleship Petropavlovsk were created in the production work shops of the institute.
Unfortunately, after Afanasiev had transferred to the Odessa Engineering Institute of Water Transport the museum gradually stopped its existence.
In March, 1969, the Institute Board made a decision on the creation of the admiral Makarov Memorial Museum due to the fiftieth anniversary of the institute. The lecturers of the naval department of the MSI, Olexander Y. Nischchenko (the engineer-captain of the 3rd rank) and Vladislav V. Matskevich (the engineer-captain of the 2nd rank), were the executors of this task.
It took almost a year to find the exhibits (the documents, photos, books), restore the ships models and create the models of the devices. The Arctic Museum of Leningrad presented to the future museum the original of the ladder to the conning bridge of the ice-breakerYermac, and the Odessa Museum of the Fleet History presented the chair out of the ice-breaker Yermac companion cabin.
On September 21, 1970, the admiral Makarov Memorial Museum was opened.
During this period the serious work devoted to the creation of the fund of the history fleet old books in the MSI was held. More than 200 books of the XVIII, XIX centuries and the beginning of the XX century were bought. There are such rarities among them: “The Maritime Regulations” dated 1780, “The Regulations of the Admiralty and the Dockyard” dated 1780, the book of Makarov “About the Ships Floodability” dated 1870, “The Historical Review of the Admiralty Development and Activity for 100 years of its Development”.
About 270 exhibits had been in the museum by the end of 1985.
Attheendof 1986 theuniversityadministrationmadeadecisiononthe museum moving into the institute primary building.
The exposition stuff were dismantled and taken into a new room in 1987. The institute administration madeanappropriationfor the interior decoration and the exposition placement.
A new exposition was created in the primary building due to the cooperative “Nash Dim” and the project of the designer S.I.Chigintsev. The museum was reopened in May, 1991.
The exposition has been lately enlarged with new original exhibits. Among them there are:navigation charts, navigation devices, the navy flag of Ukraine and St. Andrew'sflag, the materials about the circumnavigation of the institute yacht Ikar.
In 2001 the museum took the first place among the public museums of our town and the region in the inspection held by the mayor's office of Mykolayiv.
On the general and thematic excursions the visitors discover the value of Makarov’s contribution to the Motherland and fleet as a scientist, an inventor and a naval commander, and will open firmness, persistence and purposefulness in the goal achievement for themselves.
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