Things to do in Far Eastern District, Far Eastern District: The Best Specialty Museums

Music museum "World of Talking Machines" is a collection of rare vintage music talking machines and artifacts. We tell you the story of audio world since 1880 to 1980. Start your music time travel from vintage music box to LPs and cassettes! The Museum guides lecture excursions in three halls - Vintage, USSR and Disco. There is also local history’s corner devoted to Khabarovsk’s sound recording. We listen to music of different centuries and genres played by gramophones, tapes, boomboxes, LPs players. We promise you will get inspiring lecture about music recording world, your favourite music and warm memories. Please contact with us to visit museum. We work with advance registration upon request

The Museum bears the name of traveler and scientist Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev. Permanent museum exhibits on the history and culture of Primorsky Krai and Vladivostok are combined with rotating temporary exhibits which allow visitors to become acquainted with various collections. In the main museum building you can see exhibits such as: In the Footsteps of the Balhae Kingdom, telling about the Balhae Kingdom; Tomb of the Jurchen Prince Esikuy, that recreates the ancient Jurchen Prince Esikuy’s tomb complex of the mid-12th century; Archeology of Primorye, representing the objects from Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Neolithic (New Stone Age), the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Mohe People, Balhae Kingdom, Jin Dynasty and Dong Xia Kingdom; The World of Primorye’s Indigenous Peoples and Their Traditional Culture, telling about the culture and life of the Nanai, Udege, Oroch, Ulch, Eskimos, Aleuts and Itelmens; Time of People, telling about the development of Primorsky Krai by the first settlers