Mariupol Museum of Folk Life and Ethnography

Museum of Folk Life and Ethnography is located in the city of Mariupol, in the Donetsk region. The museum was established in 1989, on the site of the former museum of Andrei Zhdanov.

In autumn 2011, the museum was reconstructed, and as a result it expanded to 5 halls. At the entrance to the museum building, you can see an ethnographic map of Mariupol and its environs, with marks of the settlement of various nationalities in the region.

In the first hall there is a collection of folk life of Ukraine, a folk courtyard, living quarters are recreated. In the following halls there is an exposition telling about the culture of the peoples living on the territory of Ukraine: Russians, Germans, Jews, Poles, Greeks. Here you can look at the objects of their everyday life: clothes, shoes, tools, textile and pottery.

The hallmark of the museum is considered to be national costumes, pottery equipment, a loom.

Also here are exhibits found in the mouth of the river Kalmius, dated XVII century: ink, smoking pipe, donkey and nails.

The museum houses many family relics of famous people of the region. Mostly, all the exhibits of the museum are quite ancient and each is at least 100 years old.