Attractions of Odesa

The original new building of the Arab Cultural Center in Odesa has every chance to later become an architectural monument. The large Moorish-style house was built in 2001 by Arab businessman K. Adnan. The mosque is very different in urban development and is a real eastern pearl of Odesa. At the entrance to the prayer hall, men and women have to take off their shoes, and women are given long robes with hoods. In the prayer hall, the openwork elm on the stair railings and architectural elements make the interior of the mosque elegant and airy. Apart from a few small shelves for books on both sides of the hall, there is no more furniture. The whole floor is covered with a soft carpet, the pattern of which seems to divide the carpet into equal squares, which serve as a conditional delimitation of seats for those who pray. Under the ceiling, the main decoration is a large crystal chandelier that shines with hundreds of lights. The Arab Cultural Center in Odesa is open for excursions that introduce visitors to Arab culture. There is an Arabic language school and a library.

The Odesa Football Museum is located in the Chornomorets Stadium complex. Opened in 2012 after the reconstruction of the stadium. The exposition tells about the history of Odessa football and FC "Chornomorets" since the founding of the club in 1936. Photos of all football players who played for the club, coaches, the first matches with the participation of the Black Sea team are presented. The form of players of different periods, boots, goalkeeper gloves, balls, etc. is of the greatest interest. During the tour you can visit the bowl of the stadium, locker rooms, technical areas, conference hall.

A branch of the Greek Cultural Foundation (Athens) was opened in Odessa in 1994 in a historic building, where in 1814 a secret revolutionary-patriotic organization "Filiki Eteria" was established, which was engaged in preparing the national liberation movement in Greece. The exposition also demonstrates the activities and life of the Greek colony in Odessa in the pre-revolutionary period.

The Konstantin Paustovsky Memorial Museum is located in a house on a quiet seaside street in Odesa, just above Langeron. The writer lived in the neighboring surviving janitor's building from 1920 to 1922, during the Odesa period of his career. The museum was opened in 1998 on the initiative of the public organization "Paustovsky World Society". The main exposition is dedicated to Paustovsky's book "Time of Great Expectations" written in Odesa. It has more than 1,000 exhibits, including manuscripts, photographs, household items (early twentieth century) and personal belongings of the author. In particular, the model of the janitor described by Pasutovsky and the model of the ship "Konstantin Paustovsky" are presented. Anyone can try to tap the "SOS" Morse code with the famous telegraph key, as well as touch the sink, which was used by Konstantin G. while fishing in the village of Sanzheika.

The Memorial of the Heroic Defense of Odessa was opened in 1975 on the site of the 411th Coastal Battery, which defended the city in 1941 during the Romanian offensive.

The Museum "Secrets of Odesa Underground" tells about the famous Odesa catacombs, on which stands the whole city. Their total length is estimated at about 2.5 thousand kilometers. Most of Odesa's catacombs are underground quarries, in which the building stone rakushnyak, which was used to build most of the city's buildings, was mined. The system of catacombs also includes cavities of natural origin - karst and dilatancy caves. At various times, the catacombs served as transshipment bases for smugglers, "raspberries" for gangs, places to gather underground, shelters for guerrilla and sabotage units, bomb shelters. The museum in the dungeons on Moldavanka was established in 2013 by the military-historical club "Military Valor". Entering the catacombs, visitors are immersed in the past of the city. Here you can see the anti-nuclear bunker, go through the flooded part, visit the wild catacombs, visit the guerrilla parking lot and bandit raspberries and more.

Odesa Cognac Factory is the oldest enterprise in the industry in Ukraine. Founded in 1863 by the South Russian Society of Black Sea Winemaking. Later, the Shustov family of famous industrialists bought the plant.

At the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, the Shustov cognac won first place, thus winning the right to be called "cognac". Currently, PJSC "Odesa Cognac Factory" produces cognacs of 16 varieties, from ordinary "Desna" and ending with collectibles - "Jubilee", "Odesa", "Kyiv", "Golden Duke". In 2013, the Museum of Cognac Business M. Shustov was opened, which recreates the atmosphere of ancient cognac cellars. The museum includes several halls - "caissons": three exhibition and tasting halls, a cinema, a hall of variable expositions.

In particular, a copy of the copper Charente ale for alcohol smoking of the end of the XIX century is presented. French firm Prulho, a full-size model of pre-revolutionary cognac, as well as a bottle of Shustov cognac in 1900, which won the Grand Prix at the World's Fair in Paris.

Excursion to the museum includes part of the production (blending shop and alcohol aging shop), visiting the ancient cellars, as well as tasting the best cognacs "Shustov".

Fixed tour times: 10.00, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00 and 18.00

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Odessa was established in 2008 by businessman, intellectual and philanthropist V. Morokhovsky. The exposition is based on a unique collection of works by M. Knobel's "second wave of the Odessa avant-garde", which has been significantly expanded during the museum's existence. Of particular interest are the halls of nonconformist art of the 60s and 70s and the "New South Wave" of the 80s and 90s. A separate hall is dedicated to the legendary "fence" exhibition of V. Khrushchev and S. Sychev in 1967, which became the first Soviet unauthorized art event. The Museum also has an exhibition hall and gallery, which hosts exhibitions of contemporary art, conferences and various art projects.

The Museum of Interesting Science in Odesa is the first scientific and entertaining interactive museum in the south of Ukraine, where more than 100 unique interactive exhibits from the world of science are collected. If in other museums you can't even touch valuable exhibits, then not only you can, but you must touch, check, feel and see in action. Both children and adults can conduct interesting experiments and unusual experiments. The main task of the museum is to show schoolchildren and students that even the most difficult tasks and the longest formulas can be exciting, you just have to look at them from another angle. The Museum of Interesting Science seeks to teach the subjects of the natural cycle: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, mathematics and many other fields of knowledge. Tesla shows are held daily in the museum's laboratory, and chemical and physical shows are actively developed. The planetarium hosts sessions of cognitive science films about space every hour. In addition to the rich museum exposition, there is a cozy cafe and a small shop.

The Migdal-Shorashim Museum of the History of the Jews of Odesa was opened on the initiative of the Migdal Jewish Community Center in Odesa. His exhibition is located in a small apartment and reflects the history of the Jewish community, which is inextricably linked with the culture of Odesa. The permanent exhibition includes about a thousand items: documents, photographs, books, newspapers, postcards, religious and household items, musical instruments, works of art and more.

The Museum of Maritime Glory was opened in the premises of the Odesa Naval Academy. O. Marinesco. The organizers and founders of the museum were members of the Association of Submariners, who together with the school prepared the exhibition. The exhibition is dedicated to the development of the navy since the founding of the school until now. The main exposition tells about the Odesa submariner Alexander Marinesco, who carried out the legendary "Attack of the Century" during the Second World War. In 1945, a C-13 submarine under the command of Marinesco sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff, carrying more than 3,000 soldiers and officers. As a result, Nazi Germany's navy was severely damaged. Admission to the museum is free.

The Museum of Military Glory and the Afghan War opened in the premises of the Odessa Regional Union of Veterans of Afghanistan in 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The museum exposition has 450 exhibits. These are Afghan newspapers, phrasebooks, Afghan money, photographs, as well as samples of weapons and military equipment: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, bulletproof vests, helmets, gas masks, etc.

The Odesa Municipal Museum of Personal Collections was created on the basis of personal collections of works of art by the famous Soviet climber O. Bleschunov. A meeting of the Odesa intelligentsia was held in his communal apartment, whose representatives helped him to collect a collection of paintings and antiques. In 1989, the collector donated his collections to the city and until his death in 1991 remained head of the museum. The exhibition presents exhibitions "Russian Antiquity", "Buddhist East", "Western Europe", "Muslim East", "Odesa" and others.

The Museum of Sound in Odessa is an exclusive collection of historical rarities of sound equipment, an exhibition of audio equipment, an exhibition of all generations of sound carriers, a club of live music and musicians, a professional recording studio, a school of sound directors and DJs. The collection was collected by Odessa sound director Vasyl Pinchuk, head of the Odessa regional organization of the All-Ukrainian Union of Sound Directors. The exhibition presents gramophones and gramophones, radios and tape recorders, vinyl records, film reels, audio cassettes, CDs, posters, posters, record labels - with the logos of many companies and record factories that have replaced each other for centuries.

Museum of the Port of Odesa after F. de Volana was founded in 1990 on the initiative of the port employee and collector M. Gleb-Koshansky, opened to the 200th anniversary of Odesa. The museum is located in the old building of the barge - a hostel for porters. The exposition is based on a unique collection of documents dedicated to the history of construction and development of the Odesa seaport, founded in 1796 according to the plans of the Dutch engineer F. de Volan. In particular, de Volan's plans for the development of the city and the harbor are presented. There is also an exposition of the Navy Museum, which is previously located in the building of the Odesa Naval Station. The pride of the museum is several hundred models of ships. Excursions with a visit to the museum and the port.