Nature Museum of the KhOKM

Would you like to learn more about the nature of Kherson region, feel like part of history and a participant in an exciting tour into the natural world of wonderful Ukraine? Then the Kherson Nature Museum is a must-see stop on your route. The museum was founded in 1906. The initiator of its creation was the biologist I. Pochoskyi. A new building became necessary, since the scientist needed a place for his research and scientific work. He was supported in this decision by K. Falts-Fein and H. Skadovskyi.

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Since the founding of the nature museum, its collection has been continually replenished with new exhibits. Some of them were lost forever during WWII, but today an impressive collection has been gathered here, including animals of the underwater and land worlds, rare species of exotic animals. But what attracts visitors' attention most is the 25-meter skeleton of a fin whale — an animal of the whale family that is very similar to them, but more than 2 times smaller in size. The fin whale skeleton was donated to the nature museum by graduates of the Kherson Maritime School. Today this species is on the brink of extinction, so its presence in the museum is the best reminder to modern people that nature should be protected.