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Maritime Museum
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| Maritime Museum (Морсского Флота Украины) Lanzheronovskaya 6 (Ланжероновская 6) This museum caught fire in the summer of 2007 and all of the artifacts were lost |
History: This museum was originally the English club.
The plaque at the entrance states that in 1918 this was the headquartes of the Odessa Regional Communist Party of Ukraine Commitee.
It was opened as the USSR naval museum in 1965, being Odessa's youngest city museum.
The palace was built in 1842 by G. Toriccelli in classical style.
Like the archeology museum, the naval museum was built on a sharp incline. The facade facing the Opera Theater has only one story, and the side facing the Archeology museum has two. The white hall off the museum with its classical lines and large windows is the most beautiful.
Both the interior and exterior have been completly renovated and new exhibition halls have been built.
Description: The museum has a vast collection tracing the history of Russian/Ukrainian shipbuilding from ancient times to the present. Over 100,000 exhibits are on display in the eleven halls.
This museum has many documents, photographs, diagrams, maps, and finely made ship models, from ancient sailing boats called koches to modern nuclear powered vessels. Also there are instruments found on a bridge of a ship and in the radio cabin.
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