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. Bored of lying on the hot sand and wanted to diversify leisure? 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 heart of the city, on Ekaterininskaya Street, 6. Having visited the Museum of Smuggling, you can learn about dozens of ways of illegally transporting goods across the border. On the shelves collected more than 150 confiscated items and illustrations of how to smuggle them. Wherever drugs are hidden: in detergent, in children's toys, and in spools of thread. An X-ray of the gastrointestinal tract of one detained person, who swallowed 72 packets of cocaine, is striking. Having been on excursions, you can hear about how air was transported from Germany to France, about how the customs paid a mummy duty as dried fish, and about an underground tunnel between Ukraine and Slovakia with a length of 700 meters, which brought in $ 50 million annually illegal income. The installation will also tell about how such frauds were done in Odessa, because thanks to the port-free regime, all prohibited goods got into the city through the sea and catacombs.
For curious children and their parents
The Museum of Interesting Science (Shevchenko Avenue, 4th) is a wonderful place to relax with children of middle and senior school age. Here various physical laws in action are clearly shown. For example, you can understand how babies perceive the world around them, how tornadoes and tsunamis arise, what levitation is. The eternal engine, thermal imager, echo phone, pinhole camera, laser harp, transparent piano, many optical illusions, including a trapezoidal room, 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 the mirror maze, 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 lovers of cinema
Visiting the Dovzhenko Film Studio (33 French Boulevard), 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 others. The tour includes a walk through the filming pavilions, as well as inspection of these details. There is a unique opportunity to try on Major Mac Nabbs' bamboo helmet, stand at the helm of the Duncan, put on D'Artagnan's hat. It turns out that the costumes were mostly sewn from very cheap fabrics, and on the screen they look worthy of the royal court. For example, the famous pendants 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 to make scenery from improvised materials, how to shoot summer scenes in severe frost, and about the situation on the modern Ukrainian film production market.
For those who like to take selfies
The exhibition of wax figures "At Woman Ooty" is located in the same building as the central registry office. To enter inside in a typical Odessa manner the "mistress" herself invites, or rather the plastic doll that depicts her. Not all museums in Odessa can boast of such an exterior.
Photos in it will certainly want to be taken. Indeed, among the exhibits there are also historical figures, one way or another connected with Odessa (Catherine II, Langeron, Richelieu), Hollywood actors (Schwarzenegger, Stallone), heroes of many fairy tales and cartoons (Shrek, Batman), show business stars (The Beatles group "). Wax sculptures are very realistic, sometimes even shivering: it seems that they are about to blink.
For lovers of beauty
The Museum of Western and Eastern Art is rightfully considered one of the best in the country. His address is Pushkinskaya, 9. Here are three thematic halls devoted to ancient, western and eastern art. Among the exhibits there are such masterpieces as paintings by Caravaggio, Strozzi, Halsa.
Museum of Literature
It is dedicated to all writers who lived and worked in Odessa or wrote about this city. There are about three hundred such. Among them are Pushkin, Gogol, Babel, Ilf and Petrov, Mitskevich, Bunin, Akhmatova, Franco. Of particular interest is the backyard of this museum. There is an unusual collection of sculptures of famous literary and folklore characters created with a humorous bias (Rabinovich, Sonya the sailor, Panikovsky). Address: Langeronovskaya, 2.
For lovers of antiquity
Museums in Odessa and Odessa region have on their list one of the oldest in Ukraine - the Archaeological Museum (Lanzheronovskaya, 4). It was founded back in 1825. 160 thousand exhibits are stored here, mainly those that archaeologists have found in the Northern Black Sea region. There are also ancient monuments of antiquity from Egypt, Greece and Rome.
Other museums in Odessa
Anyone who is interested in maritime affairs needs to come to the address: Langeronovsky descent, 2. There you can get information about the role that the port played during its inception, as well as the protection of the city in various military conflicts.
The city has always been a haven for different nationalities, in particular, Bulgarians, Greeks and, of course, Jews settled well here. Therefore, such museums of Odessa as the Filiki-Eteria (Krasny Lane, 20) arose in their time, which introduced the life and culture of these national minorities. The Jewish center "Migdal-Shorashim" (66 Nezhinskaya) tells about the history of the Jews in the city from the 1770s. to this day, focusing on the tragic events of the Holocaust.
Connoisseurs of Pushkin’s creativity can visit the 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 for the night.
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 receive visitors not in the morning, but from 11.00. Of course, a month is not enough to see all the exhibitions and expositions, but one or two needs to be visited unconditionally, otherwise Odessa will not forgive this.