Museums Of Feodosia

National Art Gallery of I. K. Aivazovsky

This, in our opinion, is the main attraction of Feodosia. Some tourists even specially come here for the sake of visiting the gallery. The exhibition presents not only the works of marine painting by Aivazovsky himself, but also works by other artists, as well as paintings on mythological and biblical themes.

The gallery consists of two buildings, the first of which is located in part of the artist's House, and the second part was designed and built by him later. What is very sad, it is forbidden to take pictures, even without a flash. But video shooting for an additional fee is allowed.

Green's Museum

The Feodosia literary and Local History Museum of A. S. Green is one of the most famous museums in the Crimea, and definitely a must-visit. It is located in the House of the writer Alexander Green, where he lived from 1924 to 1929, and wrote his famous works "running on the waves", "the golden chain", "the road to nowhere", "Jesse and Morgiana", etc.

38 years after the writer's death, in 1970, a local history museum was opened here, but today it is the writer's House Museum. Inside it is decorated in the form of a ship, and reflects not only the working environment during the life of the writer, but also tells about his works and the heroes of the novels.

Feodosia Museum of Antiquities(local history)

This is another of the three museums along with the Green Museum and the Aivazovsky gallery, a must-visit during a holiday in Feodosia. Visiting it, you will learn the history of the region from the most ancient times until the reunification of the Crimea with Russia in 2014. It is considered one of the oldest museums in Europe (opened in 1811).

The museum exhibits tell about the nature of the south-eastern Crimea, the culture of the peoples of the region, the history of the city of Kaffa (Kefe) on the site of modern Feodosia. A significant part of the exhibition consists of unique archaeological exhibits. Along with the permanent sections, there are various exhibitions related to the history of the city and the work of the feodosians.

Museum of Underwater Archaeology

The Museum of underwater archaeology is located in the building of another attraction-the dacha-Palace of Stamboli. It was opened in 2013, and according to plans it should become even more popular than the Aivazovsky gallery, and attract even more tourists to the resort.

The basis of the museum are exhibits raised from the bottom of the Black Sea. Many of them are unique, covering the period – from antiquity to the Second World War. Among the exhibits you can see not only traditional shards and details of ships, but also an impressive collection of weapons, coins, jewelry, medical devices. One of the exhibits is completely unique: from the bottom of the sea was raised a sealed bottle of Medicine, in which even the air of the Revolutionary 1917 was preserved. Of course, in the museum you can learn about how underwater finds get to the museum, about underwater archaeology in general.

In general, the museum, despite its youth, is really very interesting and will be interesting for adults and children.

Vera Mukhina Museum

Perhaps you have never heard the name of this outstanding Soviet sculptor, but you have definitely seen her work. Vera Mukhina is the author of the world-famous sculpture "worker and collective farmer", created for the 1937 World exhibition in Paris. The museum was created on the site where the House of the Mukhin family was located and she lived here from 1892 to 1904. Unfortunately, in 1982 the house was demolished, it was possible to save only the facade of the wall of the building.

Today, the decor of the sculptor's House is recreated here, models of her works, tools, original furniture from the old house are exhibited.

Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva Museum

The museum exhibition tells about the feodosiya-Koktebel period of the life of the Tsvetaeva sisters, an outstanding poetess and writer. Here they lived from 1911 to 1914. The museum presents materials from the collections of the Feodosia Museum of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the House Museum of M. A. Voloshin, the National Art Gallery named after I. K. Aivazovsky, the Feodosia Museum of antiquities, as well as personal collections.

Perhaps for a wide range of tourists this museum will not be very interesting, but if you are at least a little creative, you will certainly be interested to touch the history of famous authors.

Museum of money

A small private money museum contains a collection of over 30,000 coins and banknotes! But the most amazing thing is that this whole collection was collected by one person! The place is definitely worth a visit if you have enough time for it during your vacation at the resort.

Such a museum has real reasons to be located in Feodosia: the fact is that here for many centuries, since ancient times, there were mints. The museum also has a shop.

Museum of Free Flight (hang gliding)

This is another private museum in Feodosia, and it is located in the same building as another private museum - money. It tells about the history of gliding, paragliding and hang gliding in the USSR and the CIS. This is the only Museum of this subject in the CIS.