Museum of Oceanography and fisheries, located at the National Centre for marine and fisheries research, is the only in Ukraine specialized research institutes. This organization deals with the detailed study of living marine resources. The database, located at the Institute, is a huge amount of information, based on the study of the various industries associated directly with the Azov-black sea basin and the region of the World ocean.

The desire to create a Museum about the flora and fauna arose after people began to learn from sailors traveling to distant countries, the varieties of fish and animals. They told different stories about what they had seen pretty strange, but at the same time and interesting creatures. Therefore the city authorities it was decided to organize the exposition. Then people began to bring in Pivdenniro a variety of exhibits from around the world. The Museum itself opened in 1962. Over time exhibits have accumulated so much that it was necessary to increase the area of the Museum. Even got up the question of how to allocate a separate room in order to fit everything in one building. As the premises was found, had to limit the number of exhibits.

I must say that the exposition of the Museum consists of marine flora and fauna collected from all over the world. All in all, there are about four thousand different items. Tour the Museum you can find such objects: shark-house, which is now believed to be extinct, and sawfish, inhabiting the Indian and Pacific oceans Atlantic. There may also observe unusual structure of the head hammerhead, which gives her a great ability of depth perception and the ability to feel for many miles the smell of blood. Special emphasis and other interesting objects, such as swordfish, Marlin, sailfish (make the weight category up to 700 pounds), stone perch with a length of about four meters.

Special attention tourists pay when studying numerous PREDSTAVITEL crustaceans, such as red king crabs - their leg span reaches up to two meters, crabs-horseshoe crabs (this is more than 520 million years), the black sea lobsters, isopods and crayfish of isopods, and crayfish-bears. Also in the Museum is a huge variety of turtles, marine sponges, corals, penguins, and other interesting marine life.

Tour the halls of the Museum is always done with a guide who will inform you about all the exhibits a lot of interesting facts. The Museum also organizes travelling exhibitions, where you can see the unique photographs taken during the expeditions in a variety of vessels. At the same time, it is possible to consider in detail the various equipment used by the divers, and to look at the models of research and fishing vessels.