Description of the attraction
Nikolaev Museum of Shipbuilding is the only museum of shipbuilding and fleet in Ukraine, which since 1978 has been housed in the Headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet at st. Admiralskaya, 4. The building itself in the style of Russian classicism was erected in 1794 by the famous architect Neelov and here for some time was the residence of the commander-in-chief of the Black Sea Fleet.
The exposition of the shipbuilding museum at the Fleet Headquarters has about 3,000 museum exhibits, which are located in 12 halls. All the exhibits collected by the museum demonstrate in detail all the processes of the development of shipbuilding in the Northern Black Sea region from the times of Kievan Rus and the Cossacks to the present.
In the Nikolaev Museum there are about a hundred models of ships of the XVIII - XX centuries. Here are the models of the cannon frigate "Saint Nicholas" - the first ship of the Nikolaev shipyard, the revolutionary battleship "Potemkin", the famous cannon brig "Mercury", the new aircraft carrier "Kiev" and others. Also, in several halls of the shipbuilding museum, very rare documents and maps, interesting navigation devices, marine communications devices, items of ship equipment, naval utensils and personal belongings of sailors who participated in dangerous campaigns and hostilities are exhibited. The hall of the Crimean War (1853 - 1856) houses unique relics of those times, including ship cannons, sailors' awards and St. Andrew's naval flag. There is also a model of the first armored ship - "Novgorod".
The entrance to the territory of the shipbuilding museum at the Fleet Headquarters is decorated with a large alley with a number of famous naval commanders: F. Ushakov, P. Nakhimov, F. Bellingshausen, M. Lazarev and others, and on the site in front of the entrance to the museum there are cannons that were on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet …
