Interesting museums in Odessa

Museums in Odessa, the list of which is replenished every year, is one of the reasons to come to this wonderful city. There are about 40. They were bored with lying on hot sand and wanted to diversify their leisure time? Then it's time to visit the museums of Odessa, because they are there for every taste and color.

For beginning smugglers

He settled down in the heart of the city, on Ekaterininskaya Street, 6. After visiting the Smuggling Museum, you can learn about dozens of ways of illegal transportation of goods across the border. On the shelves collected more than 150 confiscated items and illustrations of the ways of their illegal importation. Wherever drugs are not hidden: in washing powder, in children's toys, and in reels of thread. The X-ray of the gastrointestinal tract of one detained person that swallows 72 packets of cocaine is striking. Having visited the excursion, you can hear how air was transported from Germany to France, how the customs was paid for the mummy as a duty for dried fish, and about an underground tunnel between Ukraine and Slovakia, 700 meters long, which brought annually $ 50 million Illegal income. The installation will also tell you about how such frauds were done in Odessa, because thanks to the port-franco regime, all the prohibited goods entered the city through the sea and the catacombs.

For inquisitive children and their parents

The Museum of Interesting Science (Shevchenko Ave., 4е) is a wonderful place for rest with children of middle and senior school age. Here various physical laws in action are visually shown. For example, one can understand how infants perceive the world around them, how tornadoes and tsunamis arise, what is levitation. Perpetuum mobile, thermal imager, echophone, pinhole camera, laser harp, transparent piano, a lot of optical illusions, including a trapezoid room - these are just a few of the dozens of unique exhibits of the museum. Here you can measure the loudness of your voice in decibels, visit the room with laser beams, find a way out of the mirror labyrinth, solve puzzles. In a word, there will be a lot of impressions. Unlike other institutions of this type, all the exhibits can be touched by hand.

Museums of Odessa: for connoisseurs of cinema

Visiting the Dovzhenko studio (French Boulevard, 33), you can find out how many well-known Soviet films were shot, in particular, "The Children of Captain Grant", "Three Musketeers", "The Prisoner of the Castle If" and others. The tour includes a walk through the shooting pavilions, as well as an inspection of these details. There is a unique opportunity to try on the bamboo helmet of Major McNabbs, stand at the helm of "Duncan", put on the hat of D'Artagnan. It turns out that the costumes were mostly sewed from very cheap fabrics, and on the screen they look worthy of the royal court. For example, the famous pendants were bought in the poultry market for a mere penny. This museum gives an opportunity to look at the cinema from the inside: they will talk about how the scenery is made from improvised materials, how the scenes of the summer are being photographed in the frigid frost, and about the situation in the modern market of Ukrainian film production.

For those who like to make selfies

The exhibition of wax figures "At the woman of Ooty" is in the same building as the central registry office. Enter inside in a typical Odessa manner is invited by the "mistress" itself, or rather the plastic doll that depicts it. Such an exterior can not boast of all the museums of Odessa.

You want to make a photo in it without fail. After all, among the exhibits there are also historical personalities in 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 shaking: 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. There are three thematic halls devoted to ancient, western and oriental art. Among the exhibits there are such masterpieces as the paintings of Caravaggio, Strozzi, Khalsa.

Literary Museum

It is dedicated to all writers who lived and worked in Odessa or wrote about this city. There are about three hundred of them. Among them Pushkin, Gogol, Babel, Ilf and Petrov, Mickiewicz, Bunin, Akhmatova, Franco. Of special interest is the back yard of this museum. There an unusual collection of sculptures of famous literary and folkloric characters created with a humorous inclination (Rabinovich, Sonka-seamenka, Panikovsky) is collected. Address: Lanzheronovskaya, 2.

For connoisseurs of antiquity

Museums in Odessa and the Odessa region have one of the oldest in Ukraine - Archaeological (Lanzheronovskaya, 4). It was founded in 1825. Here are stored 160 thousand exhibits, mainly those that archaeologists have found in the region of the Northern Black Sea Coast. Also there are ancient monuments of antiquity from Egypt, Greece and Rome.

Other museums in Odessa

The one who is interested in naval affairs, you need to come to the address: Lanzheronovsky Descent, 2. There you can get information about the role played by the port in its inception, as well as protecting the city in various military conflicts.

The city has always been a haven for different nationalities, in particular the Bulgarians, the Greeks and, of course, the Jews settled here quite well. Therefore, at one time there were such museums in Odessa as "Filiki-Eteria" (Red Lane, 20), which introduce the way of life and culture of these national minorities. The Jewish center "Migdal-Shorashim" (Nezhinskaya, 66) tells about the history of Jews in the city from the 1770s. To this day, focusing on the tragic events of the Holocaust.

Connoisseurs of Pushkin's art can visit the museum dedicated to everything that connected the writer with this city. He is in the building number 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 a visit there, because not all work without days off. Some are closed on Wednesday, and others accept visitors not since the morning, but from 11.00. Of course, to see all the exhibitions and expositions, there will not be enough for a month, but one or two must be unconditionally visited, otherwise Odessa will not forgive it.