Art Museum

Sakhalin Island


This museum has a modest permanent collection of pre-Soviet Russian oil paintings and Korean and Japanese textiles upstairs, and changing exhibits downstairs. Best is getting inside the unique building, a former Japanese bank built in 1935.


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Nearby Sakhalin Island attractions

1. Chekhov Statue

0.03 MILES

This attractive statue of Anton Chekhov, whose visit to Sakhalin in the late 19th century put the little-known penal colony on the map, shows the great…

2. Lenin Statue

0.22 MILES

This looming statue of the revolutionary leader still stands in pride of place in front of the train station.

4. Sakhalin Regional Museum

0.66 MILES

The pagoda-roofed Sakhalin Regional Museum has a strong exhibit (sadly in Russian only) exploring the Japanese/Soviet overlap of the city’s history,…

5. Gagarin Park

0.92 MILES

This large park is full of rides and amusements, but there are some very pleasant parts for strolling away from the crowds, and even an attractive…

6. Cathedral of the Nativity

1.6 MILES

This extraordinary new addition to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk's otherwise ho-hum architectural ensemble is a staggeringly impressive golden-domed cathedral, which…

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