Museum of Shipbuilding and the Fleet

The Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet, the only museum of Shipbuilding in Ukraine, is located in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Ancient House, wherein museum is located, is a monument of records and architecture of the late 18th – early 19^th century. Built in the style of the ancient Russian classicism, it served as chancery and premises of the main commanders of the Black Sea Fleet in the course of 1794–1900. In due time such admirals as M. S. Mordvinov, I. De Traverse, A. S. Greig, M. P. Lazarev, G. I. Butakov, M. A. Arcas lived and labored here. The museum exhibition is placed in twelve rooms and numbers nearly 3,000 well-knownshows.

Exhibits in the first hall depict objects of antiquity and from the time of the Kievan Rus, and describe the start of navigation via the Dnipro and Southern Bug rivers, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. There are pictures of ancient Greek ships, illustrations of a deserved painter V. Bahtov to the "Histories" of Herodotus, archeological finds of antique Olbia, fragments of stony anchors. Exhibits which can be committed to the fleet history of Zaporizhian Cossacks and their heroic fight for access to the Black Sea are of brilliant hobby.