The museum is located in the very centre of Odessa, next to the old City Garden, in a building that is now an architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century. building, which is now an architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century.
The Odessa State Museum of History and Local Lore was formed on the basis of the Odessa Defence Museum and the Odessa Museum of History and Local Lore. Odessa Defence Museum and the Odessa Regional Museum of Local Lore. Documents, printed publications, items of applied and fine arts, numismatic collections, weapons of the 17-19th centuries, related to the history of the city and the region and once included in the museum. and the region and once belonged to the collections of the Museum of the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities, the Museum of Books, the Museum of the Book, the Museum of the History of the Odessa Region. antiquities, the Museum of Books, the Museum of Old Odessa and some others, have become a part of its funds. an integral part of its funds.
In 1983, the museum closed for major repairs, which lasted for a long eleven years. As a result, by the Odessa Art Restoration Workshops, the palace interiors were restored. workshops in Odessa, the palace interiors of the mansion were restored to their original form. form. The inner courtyard of the museum was transformed, literally brought to life, and in fact - a kind of miniature park with the a sort of miniature park with a graceful Grotto fountain. Its special chamber and cosiness Acacia, chestnut, linden and, somewhat unexpected for these places, Crimean pine trees, which are traditional for Odessa. for these places, Crimean pine and evergreen boxwood.
Currently, the museum has stationary expositions "Old Odessa", "Odessa and the region in the Great Patriotic War. 1941-1945 and temporary ones.
