Far Eastern art Museum, Khabarovsk is the largest in the Russian far East the state collection of works of fine art. The Museum is housed in the old building of the former Officers ' meeting.

The idea of creating the first "public gallery" in the East of Russia emerged at the dawn of the twentieth century the Main initiator was made by the Governor-General, a future member of the State Council and military writer N. I. Grodekov. The Museum was founded in 1931 on the basis of different income from the stocks of the State Tretyakov gallery, State Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Historical Museum, the Museum of fine arts named after A. Pushkin and other Russian collections. The Museum immediately became the main centre of cultural life in Khabarovsk.

Currently the far Eastern art Museum is the extensive collection, which offers visitors not only a unique retrospective, ranging from ancient art to the avant-garde of the twentieth century, but also a wide panorama of the visual arts of the Far East and the country as a whole at the turn of the NINETEENTH century To date, the Museum has more than 14 thousand works of fine art. In its composition presents works from different periods: ancient, Russian pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern and foreign fine art and more.

A core collection of modern art is the works of foreign and Russian artists of the second half of the twentieth century includes representatives of classical genres, artists, avant-garde and innovative directions. However, special attention to the art Museum on the study and presentation of far Eastern classics, such as works by B. Shakhnazarov, V. Vysotsky, A. Fedotova, E. Korolenko, G. Zorin, N. Dolbilin, N. Muravleva, V. Romanova, and so on.

An exhibition of art of the peoples of the Amur region and the Far North East presents works of art of the masters: household utensils and national clothes, items made of fish skin, wood, bone, suede and fur motif zoomorphic, floral and geometric ornament.