Odessa Archaeological Museum is one of the oldest in Ukraine. It was founded in 1825 by the local collector Petr Bralamberg, who donated the rare objects 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 premises in a house on Primorsky Boulevard were allocated for the museum, and in 1843 the collections were moved to a light-filled 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 holds 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 the burial places of nomads are exhibited. Numismatists will certainly also enjoy the extensive collection of Russian coins.
