Educational Archaeological Museum of Sakhalin State University

About museum

\r\nIn the 1950s an archaeological club was organized at the Department of History of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Pedagogical Institute at Sakhalin State University. In 1962 V. A. Golubev collected the first archaeological collections on the Kuril Islands. After V. A. Golubev left, his student A. A. Vasilevsky headed the archaeology laboratory and proposed creating the Educational Archaeological Museum. In 2003 a room was allocated for the museum, and in 2008 it was opened. At present the museum contains more than a thousand diverse archaeological and ethnographic collections dating from 250 thousand years ago to 100–50 years ago, including stone tools, ceramics, bone artifacts, jewelry and works of art, anthropological and faunal remains, and paleontological finds.