Vladivostok's culture runs on collision: Russian avant-garde painting hung in a 1903 bank hall, Mariinsky ballet on a Pacific headland, and Chinese-built brick courtyards turned into galleries. Three days across Millionka, Svetlanskaya and Churkin.
Primorye's main art museum: Russian icons, Repin and Shishkin canvases, and a strong early-1920s avant-garde room with Goncharova and Burliuk. Housed in the 1903 Far Eastern Bank building. Open 11:00–19:00, closed Monday.
Vladivostok's oldest private contemporary gallery, running since 1995 with monthly shows of Primorye painters, printmakers and ceramicists. Two rooms on the ground floor of a merchant house; open 11:00–19:00 on weekdays, everything on the walls is for sale.
The former Chinese quarter between Semyonovskaya, Pogranichnaya and Aleutskaya: red-brick 1900s tenements, connected inner courtyards, iron staircases and arched passages, now filled with murals, small studios and third-wave coffee bars.
The 1884 Kunst and Albers trading house on Svetlanskaya 35 is the city's finest German-built facade, with brick pilasters and cast-iron balconies. Its rear Stary Dvorik courtyard holds vintage cars, craft ateliers and a bookshop.
The region's oldest museum, founded 1884, on Svetlanskaya 20. Halls cover Bohai-era archaeology, Udege and Nanai ritual dress, Vladimir Arseniev's expedition notebooks and the Kunst and Albers trading archive. Open 10:00–19:00.
A preserved 1890s wooden officials' residence on Sukhanova street, kept as the interior of a late-imperial Vladivostok family: tiled stoves, parquet, piano, samovar and a small garden. One of very few timber houses left in the centre.
The Arseniev Museum's city branch traces the port from the 1860 military post through the 1918–22 intervention years and the closed Soviet decades, with street signage, shopfronts and household objects staged by era.
The Mariinsky's Far East house on the Churkin peninsula stages opera and ballet in a glass-fronted 1,356-seat hall over Golden Horn Bay, with Petersburg soloists rotating in through the season. Curtain is usually 18:30 or 19:00.
Rebuilt in 2007 on the footprint of the 1902 church demolished under Stalin, the cathedral sits in a park that was the city's main cemetery until the 1920s. Morning liturgy draws a genuine parish crowd rather than tour groups.
The 1909 red-brick Gothic revival Kirche served the German merchant community, was a naval club through Soviet years, and now runs organ recitals in a hall with sharp, dry acoustics. Pushkinskaya's slope gives the best facade angle.
Founded in 1989 by artist Alexander Gorodny, Artetage collects Primorye nonconformist and contemporary work — painting, assemblage and graphics by Far East artists who never showed in state galleries. Small, dense, artist-run in feel.
Built over the old Dalzavod shipyard slipway where Nicholas II laid the first stone in 1891, this waterfront strip is where younger Vladivostok gathers: street art on the dock walls, skaters, sculpture and small craft-beer bars.