Odessa Numismatics Museum, Odessa

The Odessa Numismatics Museum is a currency museum that preserves and exhibits ancient relics from the Northern Black Sea Region and Rus-Ukraine. The Museum has two branches located in the center of Odessa: at 33 Grecheskaya Str. — Exhibition of ancient and medieval coins, old and modern Ukrainian banknotes; antique pottery of the Northern Black Sea region and fine art of Kievan Rus'; and at 5 Catherine's Sq. — Coin Gallery.

In the early 1970s the museum first appeared in Odessa. It was given the name "Old Odessa" and set up in the watchtower of the old destroyed fortress located in Shevchenko Park. Over the last 10 years the museum has concentrated on the augmentation, preservation and study of historical relics and the cultural heritage of the Ukrainian people. This in turn has brought numerous awards from the Ukrainian Parliament, Government, National Bank of Ukraine and from the authorities of the Odessa region and Odessa city.

The museum maintains contacts with scientific, historical and cultural organizations in 100 countries of the World. The museum collections include over 2500 coins and other relics from different historical eras: from antiquity and the Middle Ages to modern times including the period of the formation of the modern Ukrainian state. The core of the collection is a collection of ancient coins minted by various city states, and especially of the Bosporan Kingdom which existed in the Northern Black Sea Region for almost a thousand years.