Regional Museum in Birobidzhan - is one of the cultural highlights of the city. The museum introduces visitors to the fascinating history of the Jewish autonomy project that is several years ahead of the creation of Israel. The museum is located on Lenin Street near the synagogue.

In June 1941, the executive committee of the regional council in Birobidzhan has decided to organize a group of regional studies, whose main task was collecting interesting exhibits for the future of the regional museum. Exactly three years later the city was inaugurated museum. Its first leader was appointed GL Greenbury. He made an enormous contribution to the development and establishment of the museum. The museum is located in the building of the regional library named for Sholom Aleichem.

The museum displays and exhibitions reflect the development, growth and achievements over the seventeen years since the city of Birobidzhan, the history of the Jewish autonomous region, its culture and economy. In addition, the museum staff have worked closely with many research libraries and archaeologists.

Currently, e local history exhibition of the museum consists of five sections: "Life in the Amur Cossack", which recreated a fragment of this Cossack hut, which highlights the nature of the life of a wealthy Cossack people; "The civil war in the territory of the Jewish Autonomous Region" - the section represented by a complex of historical materials about the "red" and "white" panorama Volochaivs'ka; "History of the Jewish Autonomous Region", which displayed the origins of Russian Jewry, and the central theme is the history of the formation of the JAR with all the successes and losses; "EAO during the Great Patriotic War" - section presented Photodocumentary materials and bulky exhibits telling about the participation of the region in the war; "EAO in 1945-2012 years."; "The nature of the Jewish Autonomous Region" - geography, paleontology, flora and fauna of the area, mineral resources EAO.

In total, the museum has more than 29 thousand. Units. A special place in the museum occupies an album with 200 pictures, which reflects the history and life of the Jewish people in the Jewish Autonomous Region.