Donetsk Museum of Local Lore belongs to one of the largest and most famous museums in Ukraine. Its collection consists of more than 120 thousand exhibits.
Currently, the Mariupol Local History Museum has several branches, and the museum collection consists of more than 55 thousand museum items.
The museum collection includes 650 paintings, 960 graphic works, 150 sculptures, more than 300 works of decorative and applied art.
The two-storied building of the museum, which looks like a silhouette of a sailing ship, houses an interesting historical museum of the great Arctic explorer.