Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History

The Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History (Russian: Музей истории Дальнего Востока имени В. К. Арсеньева) is a museum named after the explorer, Vladimir Arseniev, in the city of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.

On 4 September 1945, the museum was named after Vladimir Arseniev, a Russian explorer of the Far East who wrote Dersu Uzala about his expeditions with the eponymous Nanai hunter.

[3] The Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of History of the Far East is located in the building of a tenement house originally owned by Babintsev, one of the partners of the largest commercial and industrial companies in the Far East: "Trading House Churin and Kasyanov".

[4] After the Russian Revolution, the building was home to the Yokohama Specie Bank, a hairdresser, a barbecue, a financial department, and the Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography.

[5] Exhibits established since the museum's inception include collections centered on the Russian conquest and exploration of Central Asia and Siberia from the 1600s to the 1800s, an exhibit of Ice Age fossils, a 12th century noble burial complex, and a mirror owned by the leader of the Balhae.

Taxidermy of a tiger and a bear at the museum.