Odesa Fine Arts Museum
The Odesa National Fine Arts Museum, also known as the Odesa Art Museum, is a major art gallery in Odesa, Ukraine. It is housed in the Potocki Palace, a neoclassical building from the early 19th century, and was established on November 6, 1899. The museum’s collection contains more than 10,000 works, including paintings by well-known Russian and Ukrainian artists from the 16th to the 20th centuries, such as Ivan Aivazovsky and early works by Kandinsky, plus many works from the Peredvizhniki movement. It also features the local TURH school and the only collection of Soviet social realism in Odesa.
Over the years the museum has had several names: it was the Peoples Art Museum in the 1920s, then the Odesa Art Gallery after World War II, and it has been known as the Odesa National Fine Arts Museum since 2021. The museum offers free admission on the last Sunday of every month.
In 2022, the museum joined the Museum for Change program and received a grant of about $98,000. That year, the city council also approved moving the Monument to the founders of Odesa to the museum.
On November 5, 2023, the building suffered significant damage from a Russian air attack. While some interior walls were damaged, the artworks were not reported destroyed, and the museum was closed for safety until further notice. A restored grotto under the palace is part of guided tours and adds to the site’s history.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 20:15 (CET).