Museums in Odessa, the list of which is updated annually, is one of the reasons to come to this wonderful city. There are about 40 of them here. Tired of lying on the hot sand and want to diversify your leisure time? Then it's time to visit the museums of Odessa, because they are here for every taste and color.
For beginner smugglers
It is located in the very heart of the city, on Ekaterininskaya Street, 6. Having visited the Museum of Smuggling, you can learn about dozens of ways to illegally transport goods across the border. The racks contain more than 150 confiscated items and illustrations of how they were smuggled. Wherever they hide drugs: in washing powder, in children's toys, and in spools of thread. The x-ray of the gastrointestinal tract of one detainee who swallowed 72 bags of cocaine is striking. Having been on an excursion, you can hear about how air was transported from Germany to France, about how a customs duty was charged for a mummy as for dried fish, and about an underground tunnel between Ukraine and Slovakia 700 meters long, bringing in 50 million dollars annually illegal income. The installation will also tell about how such machinations were done in Odessa, because thanks to the free port regime, all prohibited items entered the city through the sea and the catacombs.goods.
For curious children and their parents
The Museum of Interesting Science (Prospekt Shevchenko, 4e) is a wonderful place to relax with children of middle and senior school age. It shows different physical laws in action. For example, you can understand how babies perceive the world around them, how tornadoes and tsunamis arise, what levitation is. A perpetuum mobile, a thermal imager, an echophone, a camera obscura, a laser harp, a transparent piano, many optical illusions, including a trapezoid room - these are just a few of the dozens of unique museum exhibits. Here you can measure the volume of your voice in decibels, visit a room with laser beams, find a way out of a mirror maze, and solve puzzles. In a word, there will be a lot of impressions. Unlike other institutions of this type, all exhibits can be touched.
Museums of Odessa: for connoisseurs of cinema
By visiting the Dovzhenko Film Studio (French Boulevard, 33), you can learn about how many famous Soviet films were actually shot, in particular "Children of Captain Grant", "Three Musketeers", "Prisoner of If Castle" and other. The tour includes a walk through the shooting pavilions, as well as an inspection of real props. There is a unique opportunity to try on the bamboo helmet of Major McNabbs, stand at the helm of the Duncan, put on a D'Artagnan hat. It turns out that the costumes were mostly made from very cheap fabrics, and on the screen they look worthy of the royal court. For example, famouspendants were bought at the bird market for mere pennies. This museum provides an opportunity to look at the cinema from the inside: here they will talk about how scenery is made from improvised materials, how summer scenes are filmed in severe frost, and about the situation on the modern market of Ukrainian film production.
For those who like to take selfies
Exhibition of wax figures "At Baba Ooty" is located in the same building as the central registry office. The “hostess” herself, or rather a plastic doll depicting her, invites you to go inside in a typical Odessa manner. Not all museums in Odessa can boast of such an exterior.
You will definitely want to take a photo in it. Indeed, among the exhibits there are also historical figures, one way or another connected with Odessa (Catherine II, Lanzheron, Richelieu), Hollywood actors (Schwarzenegger, Stallone), heroes of many fairy tales and cartoons (Shrek, Batman), show business stars (The Beatles ). Wax sculptures are very realistic, sometimes even trembling: it seems that they are about to blink.
For lovers of beauty
The Museum of Western and Oriental Art is rightfully considered one of the best in the country. Its address is Pushkinskaya, 9. There are three thematic halls dedicated to ancient, Western and Eastern art. Among the exhibits there are such masterpieces as paintings by Caravaggio, Strozzi, Halsa.
Literary Museum
It is dedicated to all the writers who lived and worked in Odessa or wrote aboutthis city. There are about three hundred of them. Among them are Pushkin, Gogol, Babel, Ilf and Petrov, Mitskevich, Bunin, Akhmatova, Franko. Of particular interest is the backyard of this museum. There is an unusual collection of sculptures of famous literary and folklore characters (Rabinovich, Sonya the sailor, Panikovsky) created with a humorous bias. Address: Lanzheronovskaya, 2.
For connoisseurs of antiquity
Museums of Odessa and Odessa region have in their list one of the oldest in Ukraine - Archaeological (Langeronovskaya, 4). It was founded back in 1825. 160 thousand exhibits are stored here, mainly those that archaeologists found in the Northern Black Sea region. There are also ancient monuments of antiquity from Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Other museums in Odessa
Those who are interested in maritime affairs should come to the address: Lanzheronovskiy descent, 2. There you can get information about the role played by the port at its inception, as well as the defense of the city in various military conflicts.
The city has always been a haven for various nationalities, in particular, Bulgarians, Greeks and, of course, Jews have settled well here. Therefore, in due time, such museums in Odessa as "Filiki-Eteria" (Red Lane, 20) arose, which introduce the life and culture of these national minorities. The Jewish Center "Migdal-Shorashim" (Nezhinskaya, 66) tells about the history of the Jews in the city from the 1770s. to the present day, focusing on the tragic events of the Holocaust.
Pushkin connoisseurs canvisit a museum dedicated to everything that connected the writer with this city. It is located in building No. 13 on the street of the same name, where Alexander Sergeevich first stopped to spend the night.
That's when you can get to the museums of Odessa, and their addresses need to be clarified before visiting there, because not everyone works seven days a week. Some are closed on Wednesday, while others do not receive visitors from the very morning, but from 11.00. Of course, a month is not enough to see all the exhibitions and expositions, but one or two must be visited unconditionally, otherwise Odessa will not forgive this.
