Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art

This museum is a peace of architectural art - small and modest but still has a glimpse of bygone centuries of the dawn of the intelligentsia. Outside of the building looks like a merchant's house, on the ground floor there is a marble staircase decorated with cupids. Collection of Eastern art resembles as simple souvenirs and only a few peaces are worth attention (carved in wood coasters and chairs). Nevertheless, the second floor really conveys the color of previous centuries and opens up space for our fantasy. Being there, I completely disconnected from the outside world and was transported to those days... In the main hall instead of just taking videos I wanted to dance a waltz. Again, the paintings on the second floor were mostly very gloomy and only a couple of them "were able" to got my attentiveness and catch my eye for a very long time and so to give me the pleasure for which I came. Tickets were very cheap (70 hryvnyas usual and 30 for students) and our visit worth to pay. :)

Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art is a gallery of Fine Arts on Pushkin road in Odessa, Ukraine. The historical center was established in 1923 and it is housed in a royal residence that was developed in the vicinity of 1856 and 1858 to a plan by the designer L.Otton. The gallery's gathering was made from already private accumulations that were enlarged by antiques from the City Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Odessa.

A couple of roads down from the Opera House, on Pushkins’ka Sreet is a compelling art museum in a noble sky-blue mansion from 1858. The museum was founded in 1923 and its art comes from a mix of private collections and pieces assembled by Odessa’s university. The name is a little misleading, as apart from a some porcelain, weapons and pieces of furniture nearly all the art is from western Europe, mainly the Netherlands and Italy. There are paintings by Caravaggio, Rubens, Francesco Guardi, Gerard David and Abraham Bloemart. Maybe the standouts are the two “tronies” of the evangelists St Luke and St Matthew by the Dutch Baroque master Frans Hals

Interesting and beautiful museum with huge amount of masterpieces. But there is no audio guide (

Not big but nice museum with paintings of european painters. I haven't seen the art pieces of Scandinavian painters before, but here you can see them and they are beautiful! But sadly, many of the museum's halls are in really bad condition. The museum is in great need of restoration.