Museum sights in Yuzhno Sakhalinsk
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Regional Museum
Home to the Karafuto administration before the USSR seized the island from the Japanese in 1945, the pagoda-roofed Regional Museum is the city's best museum. On the 1st floor are photos of the island's (and the Kurils') natural features and Chekhov-era prisons, plus 19th century seal-hide tunics worn by the Ainu (some of the island's indigenous population). The wildlife room - a taxidermy-rama - features a seal exhibit complete with a model of a bird dung-splattered cliff.
Upstairs highlights the Soviet days - best is the photo of the 1931 komsomol group with a mix of races sitting sides by side. A small Korean exhibit has recently been added. It's all in Cyrillic (except…
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Art Museum
A couple of blocks west, the upstairs permanent collection (pre-Soviet Russian oils, Korean and Japanese textiles) at the Art Museum usually beats the changing exhibits of local artists downstairs; best is getting inside the unique building, a former Japanese bank built in 1935.
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AP Chekhov Book Museum
Devoted to Chekhov's 1890 visit to Sakhalin, the AP Chekhov Book Museum was closed for renovation at last pass. It's supposedly going to expand from its small collection of photos and artwork.
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