Permanent exhibitions and museum displays

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Exhibition "Colonization of the Northern Black Sea by the Ancient Greeks: 6th century BC – 4th century AD" (first hall) and "The History of the Settlement of Taman by the Black Sea Cossacks – 1792" (second hall). The exhibition includes household items of Bosporan inhabitants: amphorae, pithoi, tableware, terracotta figurines. The second hall presents museum collections and items from the Temryuk Museum's holdings; noteworthy is the weapons collection: halberds, sabres, shashkas, rifles, pistols, and a cannon. There are also the exhibitions "Events of the Great Patriotic War in Taman: 1942–1943" (third hall) and "Nature of the Taman Peninsula" (fourth hall). In the section dedicated to the events of the Great Patriotic War in Taman (1942–1943), visitors will see photographs, documents, everyday frontline items, and weapons. The exhibition devoted to the nature of the Taman Peninsula displays museum collections such as fossils of the peninsula's ancient inhabitants and taxidermied animals. Also on display are museum collections of navigational instruments, a diving suit, models, a ship's wheel, and an anchor. The history of navigation is illustrated by a boat steering wheel, an anchor, a helm wheel, and models of a frigate and a half-galley.