Museum sights in Odesa
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Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin Museum is where Alexander Pushkin spent his first days in Odesa, after being exiled from Moscow by the tsar in 1823 for radical ideas. Governor Vorontsov subsequently humiliated the writer with petty administrative jobs, and it took only 13 months, an affair with Vorontsov’s wife, a simultaneous affair with someone else’s wife and more radical ideas for Pushkin to be thrown out of Odesa too. Somehow, he still found time while in town to finish the poem ‘The Bakhchysaray Fountain’, write the first chapter of Eugene Onegin and scribble the notes and moaning letters found in this humble museum.
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Museum of Western and Eastern Art
The Museum of Western and Eastern Art has one of three known versions (most likely not the original) of Caravaggio’s brilliant painting The Taking of Christ. Housed in a beautiful, if run-down, mid-19th-century palace, the museum’s collection also includes canvases by Canaletto, Rubens and Hals.
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Archaeology Museum
Gold jewellery and coins from early Black Sea civilisations (as well as a few Egyptian mummies) are showcased at the Archaeology Museum.
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