Archaeological Museum, Archaeological museum in Khabarovsk, Russia.
The Archaeological Museum occupies a building of the Khabarovsk Regional Museum named after N. I. Grodekov, opened as a separate museum in 1998. Its halls present the distant past of the Amur region, from Stone Age tools to pottery and ornaments of later cultures. The displays draw on the museum's archaeological collections, gathered since the institution was founded in 1894.
The museum was founded on 1 May 1894 by the Amur branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, with Vasily Radakov as founding director and Nikolay Grodekov as patron. In 1902 it was named after Grodekov, who funded its creation. The name was removed in the Soviet period and restored in 1994. The archaeology museum opened in 1998.
The museum presents the story of the Nanai people who have lived in this region for centuries. Their tools, dwellings, and personal objects show how they lived and what skills they had.
The archaeology museum opened in 1998 as part of the Grodekov Krai Museum, whose main building stands at Shevchenko Street 11 with the artillery battery of 19th-century guns in front of it. The second building, added by 1975, holds the Volochaevskaya Battle panorama hall. Allow time to move between buildings, and note that the fin whale skeleton, 20 metres long, is displayed indoors in the third building.
The museum holds petroglyphs, ancient rock carvings that show what mattered to early people who lived here. Visitors can also learn about ancient pottery workshops and the techniques people used to make clay vessels.
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