Museum of disasters on the waters

The only museum of marine disasters in the world is in the Crimea in the village of Malorechenskoye. The catastrophe museum is located on the ground floor of the 60-meter high church of St. Nicholas of Merlikian.

It forms part of the Memorial Complex "In Memory of the Dead on the Water". There are 17 rooms with video monitors and stands on thousands of square meters, they tell about the most notorious catastrophes on the waters of the World Ocean.

Go inside the museum! The interior is made in the style of a sunken ship with cabins, each of which opens to the visitors a separate tragic page of sea adventures of brave sailors and travelers.

Within the walls of the catastrophe museum, every visitor has the opportunity to see 9 videos, including archival materials, documentary tapes and eyewitness accounts. Here is the tragic history of the Titanic's death, and the catastrophe that befell the nuclear submarine Kursk and the German battleship Bismarck, the passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov and the battleship Novorossiysk, as well as the history of the death of five thousand passengers of the transport vessel Armenia ". Even in the lobby of the museum you will see impressive pictures of tragedies, as well as learn about the places of catastrophes and the number of victims. All the walls of the museum are decorated with reliefs resembling algae, fishing nets, wooden elements, shells, and the floor is lined with hewn deck boards. Passing the cabin behind the cabin, you will travel in time and space surrounded by anchors, chains, lanterns, mock guns and other marine items.

One of the most interesting exhibits of the museum is a gazebo made in the style of the Flying Dutchman. She is located on the edge of the abyss, and the appearance tells of her appointment, which people believed in ancient times, - to deliver the souls of the dead into eternal life. By the way, from this pavilion you can see an extraordinary view of the Southern coast of Crimea, Cape Ayu-Dag.

The catastrophe museum is located on the 26th kilometer of the Alushta-Sudak road on the outskirts of the village of Malorechenskoye on Deja street, 17. You can get here by car or bus, which runs to the village of Rybachye.