Museum of the History of the City-Resort of Sochi

About museum

The Museum of the History of the City-Resort of Sochi, formerly known as the local history museum, was founded in 1920 and is one of the city's oldest cultural institutions. The museum holds the collection of the Sochi branch of the Caucasian Mountaineering Club, which existed in the settlement of Sochi from 1902 to 1917. From the mid-1920s until 1932 the museum had to relocate or temporarily mount exhibitions because it had no permanent premises. Only in 1932 was the museum established in the building on Ordzhonikidze Street, where it remained for more than 60 years. In 2000 the museum moved to another building and lost its permanent exhibition. It is now housed in 14 halls with an area of more than 700 sq. m and reflects the history of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and the city of Sochi from ancient times to the present day. The museum's collections comprise more than 100,000 items, and it receives about 120,000 visitors annually.