Sakhalin Regional Museum of Local Lore is the central museum of the Sakhalin region. It. The Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1896 by the military governor of Sakhalin D. V. Merkazin. Currently, it occupies a Japanese building from 1937, which was built in the traditional national style of teikan-zukuri, the only one of its kind on the territory of both Sakhalin and the whole of Russia.