The museum is located in the heart of Odessa , near the old city garden , a small cozy little street called Havana.And indeed, if with Deribasovskaya and Transfiguration had to get loaded at the port , the easiest way this could be done by turning to Havana a couple of quarters, gently and slowly going downhill , and dived under a bridge , viaduct , street displays directly to the harbor .
Perhaps that is why in Hawaii in 1876 by the famous architect F.Gonsiorovskogo house was built a palace for one type of major representatives of industrial and commercial elite of the time - Alexander Yakovlevich Novikov , a grandson of the famous Odessa merchant of the first guild Ilya Novikov , owner, founded in 1806, the cable plant.In this building which is now a monument of architecture of the second half of the XIX century, and is the Odessa museum of regional history .
The architecture of the two-story house , as in previous works of Felix Gonsiorovskogo , dominates the spirit of stylization .In this case - based on the use of forms of the late Renaissance , with a variation of designs and motifs drawn from the architectural heritage of Italy. The building seamlessly into the overall layout of the streets and on the right was among the works of architecture that create a unique look of the city.
Prior to 1899 mansion in Hawaii , 4 in Odessa was known as the House of Novikov ( by the way , Novikov, were not only large manufacturers , but the homeowners ). In the early twentieth century, it acquired the city government.
In 1907, the house was leased to the Odessa Commercial Assembly. After October 1917 there often changed owners .In the state rooms housed a variety of clubs, a departmental library, the regional party courses . Basement and first floor of the hall were used as dwellings.
the first museum exhibition is housed here in August 1944: it was an exhibition of ' heroic defense of Odessa ', on which subsequently created the Museum of the Republican defense of Odessa .
A May 6, 1956 hospitably opened the doors to its first visitors of Odessa State Museum of Local History .It was formed on the basis of the Museum of the defense of Odessa and the Odessa Regional History Museum.Documents , publications, objects of applied and fine art , numismatic collections , guns XVII XIX centuries, relating to the history of the city and region , and once were part of the Museum of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, the Museum of Books , the Museum of Old Odessa and some others were part of its funds.
In 1983, the museum was closed for major repairs , which lasted eleven years long . As a result, by the Odessa Art restoration workshops palace interiors in the mansion have been restored to its original form .Changed, literally come to life, the patio of the museum, and in fact a kind of miniature park with an elegant fountain ' Grotto '. Special intimacy and comfort he gives to the traditional Odessa acacia , chestnut, linden , and somewhat unexpected for these places , Crimean pine and evergreen boxwood .
At the same time quite different sounding parts purchased here are located the famous monument in memory of the base of Odessa, established in 1900 at the beginning of Catherine Street , dismantled in twenty lay down, but miraculously saved from total destruction. The surviving bronze statues of Catherine II and her companions creation sculptors B.Edwards , A. Popov and Yu architect Dmitrenko complement architectural design of the museum complex. At the present time in the museum are static display \,
With the accumulation of material in the course of research and collecting work will be created and other exhibitions , the most revealing aspects of life in our city and region .
operation: daily 10 . 00 to 16. 30 ( day off - Friday).
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