At the bottom of Devolanivs’kyi uzviz you will find a fascinating, free museum. It was opened in 1990 in anticipation and commemoration of Odesa’s 200th anniversary. It is a one-of-a-kind museum as it tells the history of the Black Sea’s most important port. In the restored dock-worker sleeping quarters hang ancient drawings, original plans of the city and port and even a Cossack war ship. If you would like to learn more about the period on display, check-out ‘Chelkash’ by the famous Ukrainian writer M. Gorky, in which he describes life on a Black Sea dock.