Odessa Archaeological Museum is one of the oldest in Ukraine. It was founded in 1825 by the local collector Pyotr Bralamberg, who donated the rare items and books he had collected to create the museum exhibition. At first, all of this was kept in his own house and was regularly supplemented by other collectors, but in 1829 the museum was given premises in a house on Primorsky Boulevard, and in 1843 the collections were moved to a bright mansion on Lanzheronovskaya Street.
It is important to note that the museum developed not without the help of members of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, who conducted excavations in the southern part of the Russian Empire.
In addition to exhibits from the largest collection in the history of the Northern Black Sea region (the museum has more than 160 thousand of them), there are collections of items from Ancient Rome, Egypt, and Greece — all these rarities, including weapons, utensils, jewelry, and money, were found during excavations in the Odessa region.
Particularly interesting is the museum's so-called "Golden Treasury," where items made of precious metals found in Sarmatian and Scythian burial mounds and in nomad burial sites are displayed. Numismatists will certainly enjoy the extensive collection of Russian coins.
