Odessa Museum of Numismatics is the first Ukrainian historical museum of new type whose tasks became studying the history of coinage and money circulation of the Ukrainian state and also preservation and demonstration the major historical relics belonging to ancient history and culture of the Northern Black Sea Region and Rus-Ukraine. In September 1994 when Odessa celebrated its 200 th anniversary in city was open the permanent numismatics exhibition. In January 1999 it has been reorganized in the Odessa Museum of Numismatics.

Museum has two branches located in the central part of city:
Grecheskaya Str., 33 - Exposition of Antique and Medieval coins, old and modern Ukrainian banknotes;
Deribasovskaya Str., 16 - the Gallery "Monetary Yard" - Exposition of Antique coins and ceramics of the Northern Black Sea Region, money and fine art plastics of the Kievan Rus, modern coins and substitutes of money of Ukraine.

Museum collection includes over 2,5 thousand coins and other relics belonging to different historical epochs: Antique, Medieval, to new and newest time including the period of independent development of the Ukrainian state.

The core of Museum's funds form ancient coins minted by various cities-states and Bosporus Kingdom existed in the Northern Black Sea Region for almost one thousand years.

There're many unpublished unique and rare coins making the special scientific interest. The results of Museum's research activity have been embodied in the regular periodical "Bulletin of the Odessa Museum of Numismatics ". In its issues are published unique and rare coins with analysis of their features (typology, semantics of images, chronology etc.) synthesized with historical events, condition of economy and worldview of that time when coins were minted. These publications introduce into research practice previously unknown historical relics and enrich the Corpus of coins of the Northern Black Sea Region. Complete "Collection of articles concerning to the numismatics of the Northern Black Sea Region" has been released by tenth Museum's anniversary. Except for it Museum issues publicistic bulletin- almanac "About what the coin has told".

By principles of organization and forms of activity it is the public Museum . Its creation and maintenance has obtained no budget allocation. The visitings of Museum are free of charge for everyone. The Museum's staff works as volunteers. The Founder and Director of the Museum is known numismatist, researcher and public worker Peter G. Loboda. The Constituter of the Museum is the oldest Odessa' public organization - the Odessa City Collector's Societ.

Museum's activity directed on preservation, augmenting and studying of cultural and historical relics being the heritage of Ukrainian people is marked off numerous awards of Ukrainian Parliament and Government , National bank of Ukraine and authorities of Odessa city and Odessa region.

© The Odessa Museum of Numismatic 2000.