[4]: 155  For the site, land belonging to Karafuto Jinja was used; a Butokuden [ja] or martial arts facility was also built nearby in Japanese-style.

[4]: 154  In 1937, the Karafuto Agency Museum reopened to the public in what was then the city of Toyohara [ja], now Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, with displays organized around the three themes of nature, culture, and industry.

[5]: 83  The building has a marked horizontal emphasis, the tenshu-like components provide a strong central accent and give an impression of ascent, while staggered roofs add variety to enliven the façade.

[7] Leading figures documented include Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy, Mogami Tokunai, Mamiya Rinzō, Matsuura Takeshirō, Bronisław Piłsudski,[8] and Igor Farkhutdinov, and the local oil and gas industry is also introduced.

[1][2] The collection includes replicas of local fossil finds, of Nipponosaurus sachalinensis and Desmostylus hesperus;[2][7] taxidermied representatives of species featured in the Red Data Book of Sakhalin Oblast;[7][9][10] materials relating to the Ainu, Nivkh, and Uilta;[7] and one of the four main boundary markers placed in 1906 along the 50th parallel at the time of the demarcation of the Sakhalin frontier following the Treaty of Portsmouth that brought the Russo-Japanese War to its close.