The many museums and art galleries of Odessa contribute to the cultural life of the city. These are the richest museums of the city:

• Odessa Fine Art Museum: the most important art gallery of the city. It is also a pivot of Odessa’s cultural life, due to many social events organised by the Museum.
• Odessa Western and Eastern Art: the second art gallery of Odessa.
• Odessa Modern Art Museum: the main modern art museum of the City.
• Tolstoy house museum of Odessa: the best mansion of a noble family of Odessa complete of all furniture and interior design of XIX’s century.
• Pushkin Museum: documents and objects showing the main Russian poet’s life in Odessa.
• The Museum of History of Odessa Jews “Migdal Shorashim”: life and culture of the biggest portion of the city’s population up to WWII.
• Literature Museum: full of historical books and documents of Russian literature.
• Museum of Philiki Etairia: the museum of the Hellenic Foundation.
• Shustov Cognac Museum: history of a famous and prestigious cognac producer of Odessa.
• Odessa Film Studios: the Hollywood of Soviet Union.

These cultural institutions contribute to show a city, resulting from the fusion of different European influences.