Museums and galleries in Khabarovsk

Museums and galleries in Khabarovsk

1. See

   Far East Regional Museum

   Хабаровский краеведческий музей

   One of the oldest museums in the Russian far east, laid out in 6 sections in an impressive 1894 red-brick building. For the most part it's leaps and bounds ahead of the region's other museums, and with nearly half a million artifacts in the collection, they can afford to be picky about what they display. The ethnographic section with displays of indigenous cultures from around the Amur is unusually informative, but the zoology section is also worth a look, stuffed animals galore! To top it off, it has been renovated, and they even have a few English captions here and there. May be worth considering but the price for foreigners is high for what you see.

   Closed · opens 10 am·RUB 300

2. See

   Far Eastern Art Museum

   Дальневосточный художественный музей

   Established in the 1930s and now housed in the building of a former officers' club. They seem to take most pride in their collection of Far Eastern aboriginal art, but they also have a rare collection of ancient Russian religious icons and Japanese porcelain. In the classic exhibition they have a few painters you may have heard of like Titian and Garofalo, but also some lesser known Russian masters.

   Tue–Sun 10:00-17:00·Foreigners RUB 150

3. See

   Far Eastern Military Museum

   Военно-исторический музей ДВО

   Another impressive building from the turn of the 20th century, this one was the state bank up until the 1930s. Weapons galore propped up by medals and other memorabilia. If you are not interested in these sort of things, you can probably give it a miss, but they have a few cool war propaganda posters from the Great Patriotic War and a luxury officers' railway carriage from the 1920s in the courtyard, if you need to entertain yourself for a while while any male company goes into boy mode.

   Tue–Sun 10:00-17:00

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   Far Eastern Railway Museum

   Музей истории Дальневосточной железной дороги

   A small museum which houses a previously private collection of around 2000 original artifacts, documents, models and photographs telling about the history and construction of the Far Eastern Railway.

   Mon–Fri 09:00-17:00

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   Geological Museum

   Геологический музей Хабаровска

   Housed in a beautiful 19th-century building, which once belonged to a prominent local merchant family. True to its name, this museum has a huge collection of rocks and minerals – some even some from outer space, like a few moon fragments brought home to Earth by automatic probes and one of the world's largest iron meteorites which crashed into the Sikhot-Ailin mountains in the 1940s. If you are not into stones, you could check out the small section on tools and equipment related to prospecting in the region or the collection of prehistoric plant and animal fossils. Outside the museum there are a few large monoliths of minerals, ores and rocks.

   Closed · opens 10 am

6. See

   Khabarovsk City History Museum

   Музей истории Хабаровска

   The newest museum in town: it was opened in 2004. A small museum which details the history of Khabarovsk from its inception up until today. Covering the pre-revolutionary period, the October Revolution and the civil war in Khabarovsk, the city during World War II, and up until the Perestroika and modern Khabarovsk. The collection is mainly made up of everyday items, photographs and documents from private donations.

   Foreigners RUB 300

7. Do

   Khabarovsk Philarmony

   Хабаровская краевая филармония

   If the language of classic music is more understandable for you than the tongue of Russian artists, this is the place you might enjoy. The whole Far Eastern Orchestra and Organ performers in the downtown are all for your pleasure. The big hall of Philarmony is just the next door to the Museum of Arts and open every day.

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   Museum of Archaeology

   Хабаровский музей археологии

   Part of the regional museum but located in an attractive separate building which, before the October revolution got him, was owned by the owner of a local brewery. Finds from the dawn of man up until the middle ages. Their collection of ancient ceramics is interesting, and the Sikachi-Alyan petroglyphs and Sheremetyevsky inscription replicas are also worth a look.

   Tue–Sun 10:00-17:00

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Khabarovsk (CC BY-SA 4.0).