The Sakhalin Regional State Museum is one oldest institutiuons for humanitarian researchers in the Sakhalin Region and in the Russian Far East since 1896. Our museum is home to scientific staff who are well-known in their fields: anthropology, natural resources, history, education. The Museum has more than hundred and fifty thousand speciments and cultural artifacts that record the history of life in the Russian Far East and thу region of the Pacific Islands. Every year more than 70 thousand visitors come to view the Museum exhibits concerning ancient history, ethnology, zoology, botany, geology and others. Our Museum as a resource for Native Communities of Sakhalin Island and as a Public Institution. The publications of the Museum's staff are widely disseminated among foreign colleagues. Information about Sakhalin Regional State Museum can be found on our website www.sakh.com/museum.

   

    The Museum was opened on December,6, in 1896. The museum was one of the first scientific institutions on the island to study local nature and history. Unique collctions were made, interpreted, systematised and popularised. With its rich exhibits and contents, the museum became well known not only in the Far East, but in Moscow and St. Peterburg. Over all these years the Museum researches have made valuable and unique collections based on local history and natural history. The Museum is particulary proud of its ethnographic collections of the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the island and its collections relating to the Russian - American exploration of the Kurile Island, as well as its fine exhibits of local flora and fauna.