Museum of the Cinema (Odesa, Ukraine)

With more than 10,000 works on display, the museum is a testimony to the history and cinematic activity in Odesa.

Here can be found historic materials, from the invention of cinema, to the postmodern, digital and avant-garde.

A popular attraction, measuring 28 square metres, in one room – explores the invention of the cinema (two years prior to the Brothers Lumière!

In recent years, students have written papers on the history of the cinema and the development of culture in the town of Odesa.They have also researched and published an annotated, illustrated catalogue of the films of Odesa (from 1917 to 2004).

The Museum monographs are published from Kira Muratova, Vladimir Vysockiy, Vasiliy Reshetnikov, Ljudmila Popova.