Far Eastern Art Museum

The Far Eastern Art Museum is the largest museum of fine arts in the Russian Far East. In 2021, it celebrated its 90th anniversary – its history began in the early twentieth century. The museum is the center of artistic life not only of the Khabarovsk Territory, but also of the entire territory of the Russian Far East.

Currently, the collection of the Far Eastern Art Museum has about 16 thousand unique original works of fine art. It includes works of ancient Russian, Russian pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern periods, Far Eastern and Western European fine art, art of the peoples of the Amur region and the North of the Far East of Russia. The permanent expositions of the museum present works of Russian icon painting of the XV-XX centuries, distinguished not only by the high level of life-giving painting, but also by the greatness of spiritual beauty. The halls of Russian art housed the best museum works of S. Shchedrin, V. Tropinin, I. Aivazovsky, V. Vereshchagin, I. Shishkin, I. Repin, V. Surikov, V. Polenov, I. Kramsky, A. Kuindzhi, I. Levitan, P. Konchalovsky. Halls of Western European art are distinguished by schools of painting: Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish and French.

The collections of the Far Eastern Art Museum are located in the old building of the former officer collection, where, according to diary records and letters, A.P. Chekhov stayed on the way to the island of Sakhalin.