For companies
Corporate visit to the museum
This is a unique format for the development of corporate culture. It helps to unite employees based on their interest in the art and history of Odesa, as well as the development of creative and critical thinking.
Periodic visits to the museum develop the skills of concentration, observation, and attention to detail.
It helps to focus more quickly and delve into the context more effectively.
Analyze and see the relationship between the development of society and art history.
By visiting the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, you help the museum improve and implement new large-scale exhibition projects.
Our scientists’ team developed a variety of tours, which we offer to visit in a particular sequence:
Full Guided tour of the exposition
This guided tour will focus on the main exposition of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, emphasizing the paintings.
Guided tour to the grotto
Guided tour to underground voids-basements under the palace, where the museum is located.
Special offer
Guided tour at night
Curated guided tours to exhibitions
Guided tours to the exhibitions
Contact us!
+38 048 737 3870
Ulyana Dovgan, Head of the Event Department of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum
Part 1. Introduction
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Our guided tours
What is this: Full guided tour to the main exposition of the museum with an emphasis on the paintings – this is the first acquaintance with the museum. During an hour and a half excursion, you will follow the development of art from XXI to XX centuries in a chronological sequence.
As a result: you will understand how that period’s art evolved and restricted the principal art movements.
Duration: 90 minutes
What is this: A full guided tour to the main exposition of the museum with an emphasis on the sculptures. During this excursion, you will get to know more about this form of art, and also about the brightest sculptors of Odesa.
As a result: A full understanding of the sculpture of the main exposition of the museum will be formed.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
What is this: Excursion to one of the remaining underground basements in Odesa, open for visitors, located underneath the palace, where the Odesa Fine Arts Museum is located.
As a result: You will get to know the palace’s history and its owners and visit a unique dungeon.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
What is this: The excursion is based on the icon collection of OFAM. The central piece of the exhibition is the most valuable exhibit of the collection – icons of the circle of Dionysius, an extension of the tradition of Andrii Rublev.
As a result: You will get to know what an icon is, not in a sacred sense, but from an artistic point of view. Why icon art is a crucial part of the development of art and the difference between Ukrainian icons and European ones
Duration: 60 minutes.
Part 2. Level up
Now that you are well acquainted with the main exposition of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum. Next, we suggest you go to visit our current exhibitions. Next, we suggest you go to visit our current exhibitions. The detailed scientific work of researchers precedes each exhibition project in the Odesa Fine Arts Museum. As a result, we have the opportunity of broader and deeper coverage of a particular artistic period or the work of a specific artist. Range of the relevance of the topic and understanding of the context, substantiation of the creative work of artists, a balanced approach to the formation of the exhibition — all this will become more understandable and receptive when visiting a curatorial tour.
«ХХ — ХХІ: From the twenties to the twenties»
On June 25, the long-awaited opening of the renewed second-floor exposition entitled «XX-XXI: from the twenties to the twenties» took place. Work on the new exhibition lasted more than six months. And now you can see a lot of artwork-works that have been stored in the funds for decades. The new exhibition includes more than 300 works in various fields and techniques. Among the presented authors are such well-known names as Yuri Egorov, Stanislav Sychov, Larisa Zvezdochotova, Valentin Khrushchev, Arsen Savadov, Viktor Maryniuk, Lyudmila Yastreb, Vlada Ralko and many others.
Part 3. Let's get acquainted
And now we offer you a choice of various authors’ guided tours from our scientific department, which you can choose based on topics of interest to your team. Such excursions are an opportunity to get acquainted with works of art informally and learn the guide’s attitude toward this or that work. It is about live emotional communication, a chance to study more deeply familiar works, look at them from a new point of view, and learn about those works of art that are not covered during full guided tours.
Author's excursions
What is this: The Excursion is based on the artworks by marine artists in the exposition of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum. We will introduce you to the most impressive artworks and tell exciting facts from the artist’s biographies.
As a result: You will get to know more about the landscape genre and its variation – marine paintings. You will understand why Ivan Aivazovskiy is called «great» and many other marine artists that we are proud of.
Duration: 60 minutes.
What is this: The excursion is based on the female artists in the exposition of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum. For many centuries women were the silent majority. We propose to look at women not only as they are muses and inspirations. From the point of view, they are «behind great men’s backs,» but as women patrons, artists, and revolutionary persons.
As a result: You will get to know how a suit freed women but imprisoned their bodies, how literature formed new ideals of womanhood, what was on the mind of women from different periods, and what they dreamed about.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Part 4. A different view on the familiar things
Some authors’ tours use cycles – so we offer to look at the same topic from different angles and points of view, of course, on the example of our main exposition.
Cycles
What is this: Cycle of excursions dedicated to different holidays and celebrations, and consists of:
1. Snuggled up: festive costumes.
2. Set the table: dinner.
3. Had some fun: holidays entertaining.
4. Charmed: mystical stories.
5. Loved: erotic stories.
As a result: You will get to know the traditions of celebration at different times, how people dressed, what they cooked, what their entertainment was, and what rituals they followed. All of that from a perspective of different eras, art movements, and ethnic groups.
Duration of every separate excursion: 40 minutes.
What is this: Cycle of excursions dedicated to love in the Odesa Fine Arts Museum’s exposition, and consists of:
- Love and passion.
- Love and hate.
- Love and relationships.
- Love and flirt.
- Love and romance.
As a result: You will get to know how love was depicted in different times, what degree of openness artists executed and what stories lay behind one or another love scene in the exposition.
Duration: 40 minutes.
What it is: a series of tours, each of which is dedicated to a specific color in the exhibition. Thus, we offer to learn to “read” a picture through colors – without focusing on the plot or biography of the author, we will try to understand how and why the artist works with a particular color.
As a result: look at the already familiar works from a new angle, learn more about color, the symbolism of colors, the role that color played in the work of individual artists, and even entire artistic directions and artistic associations.
We offer the following colors: white, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and black.
Duration:45-60 minutes.
Part 5. Special offer
What it is: a tour of the first floor and grotto of the museum after it’s closed — with the lights off, using electronic candles and flashlights. In such a situation, a trip to the museum becomes mystical and even a little intimate — during it, you will learn the most secret museum stories.
*At your request, we can conduct a separate tour of the first floor or grotto. We will calculate the cost additionally.
We can also «revive» the paintings from the exposition:
Part 6. Additional joy
Our offer is not limited to all of the above. At your request, we are pleased to:
We will develop personal excursions of any topic and theme within the limits of an exposition of Odesa Fine Arts Museum (Price for the development of the tour: UAH 1,000, excursion service price - UAH 350 + an entrance ticket for each participant - UAH 100);
We offer excursions in English or French (the price will not change);
We will offer the entertaining program and master classes for children (Price: from UAH 1,500);
We can provide a spare room at the end of each tour for sharing, reflection, and exchange of impressions (rental price: UAH 1,400/30 minutes).
Contact us!
+38 048 737 3870
Ulyana Dovgan, Head of the Event Department of the Odesa Fine Arts Museum