Sakhalin Regional Art Museum

On August 1, 1983, the museum was registered in the register of state museums of the RSFSR, and on September 20, 1983, an order was issued by the Department of Culture of the Sakhalin region “On the opening of an art museum in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk”.

In 1986, the museum received operational management of the building, which was built in 1930 for the branch of the Japanese colonial bank Takuseku. The unknown author of the project took as a basis the achievements of European architecture of late modernity, which created a special environment for the perception of works of art. In 1999, the building was awarded the status of a cultural heritage site of regional importance.

Under the leadership of the first director of the museum, R.S. Gorokhova, collections of Russian art and modern graphics, works by artists of Sakhalin and the Far East, works of art of Japan began to form, and the first professional contacts with museums of Russia, creative organizations of the republics of the former USSR and foreign countries (Japan and the DPRK) were established.

Thanks to the exhibition work, the museum acquaints Sakhalin people with the best examples of Russian and foreign painting, the work of famous contemporary artists of Russia: painters and graphic artists of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Far Eastern artists from Yakutia, Amur Region, Primorye, Sakhalin countrymen.