Odesa Sights

  1. Archaeology Museum

    Gold jewellery and coins from early Black Sea civilisations (as well as a few Egyptian mummies) are showcased at the Archaeology Museum. The once-glorious building across the street was the Ship Museum until, sadly, it was gutted by fire in 2005.

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  2. 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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  3. Pushkin Museum

    Pushkin spent time in Odesa after being exiled from Moscow in 1823 for his radical ideas. Humiliated by petty administrative jobs, he took up his womanising and lasted just 13 months - long enough, however, to produce important work. This charming museum is definitely for fans - don't rush, though, or the caretaker may make you revisit the bits you missed.

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