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Submitted by XIII on Wednesday, 12 October 2022  Page Views: 1815

MuseumsSite Name: Melitopol Museum of Local History Alternative Name: Ukrainian: Мелітопольський краєзнавчий музей
Country: Ukraine
NOTE: This site is 72.335 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Melitopol
Latitude: 46.845278N  Longitude: 35.381389E
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Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : I think this may be some of the Scythian gold that was reported as looted. Photo Credit: Андрей Гармаш (Vote or comment on this photo)
Melitopol Museum of Local History in Ukraine exhibited objects relating to the history and nature of the region. It's collection consists of approximately 60,000 objects including a unique collection of Scythian gold of the fourth century BC, obtained as a result of excavations of the Melitopol kurgan.

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Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : And another anthropomorphic stela under a tree in a courtyard outside the museum.br> Photo Credit: Maya Ernst (Vote or comment on this photo)

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : Another anthropomorphic stela, I think I recognise this one from my book. Photo Credit: Olga Lyulina (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : More anthropomorphic stelae outside the museum somewhere.
Photo Credit: Наталья Григорьева (Vote or comment on this photo)

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : Some prehistoric items including a smooth stone axe.
Photo Credit: Олександр Шпак (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : Anthropomorphic stela and organ in the stairwell.
Excerpt of Panoramic photos by Алексей Мальцев (Vote or comment on this photo)

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : Some unusual rock art and other prehistoric items. Photo Credit: Светлана Лясота The rock art label translates roughly as: GROUP OF PICTURES OF ROCKINGS WITH IMAGES ON THE PLATE, ESPECIALLY, ANIMALS (HORSE), AND SO HUMAN FOOT - SANDALS. STONE TOMB. LOCATION No28. HORSE PLATES. PLAYBACK. Original: ГРУПА МАЛЮНКІВ НАСКЕльних з ЗОБРАЖ...

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : I think this may be some of the Scythian gold that was looted. Photo Credit: Olga Lyulina The label says: In 1948, a burial complex of the Hun was (excavated), consisting of more than 90 items, discovered in the Kiziar Baltic in Melitopol and transferred to the Meptopol Local History Museum. The Unique Polychrome Gold Diadema, Gold cover, detail and jewellery bridge, etc. arrived from th...

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : Some digital style art with a stelae theme. Photo Credit: Андрей Гармаш Not sure who the artist is as can't read caption

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : As with other museums in Ukraine they have a good collection of anthropomorphic stelae. Some are/were displayed in stairwells which is not ideal... Photo Credit: Сергей Орлик

Melitopol Museum of Local History
Melitopol Museum of Local History submitted by dodomad : They seem to have cave paintings on the roof of this gallery! Photo Credit: Oleh Havryshchuk

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Re: Russia looted ancient gold artifacts from the museum. by Andy B on Wednesday, 12 October 2022
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The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500 years ago, was one of the world’s most valuable artifacts from the blood-letting rule of Attila the Hun, who rampaged with horseback warriors deep into Europe in the 5th century.

The Hun diadem is now vanished from the museum in Ukraine that housed it — perhaps, historians fear, forever. Russian troops carted away the priceless crown and a hoard of other treasures after capturing the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in February, museum authorities say.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its eighth month, is being accompanied by the destruction and pillaging of historical sites and treasures on an industrial scale, Ukrainian authorities say.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Ukraine’s culture minister alleged that Russian soldiers helped themselves to artifacts in almost 40 Ukrainian museums. The looting and destruction of cultural sites has caused losses estimated in the hundreds of millions of euros (dollars), the minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, added.

Workers at the Museum of Local History in Melitopol first tried hiding the Hun diadem and hundreds of other treasures when Russian troops stormed the southern city. But after weeks of repeated searches, Russian soldiers finally discovered the building’s secret basement where staff had squirrelled away the museum’s most precious objects — including the Hun diadem, according to a museum worker.

The worker, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity, fearing Russian punishment for even discussing the events, said the Ukrainians don’t know where Russian troops took the haul, which included the tiara and some 1,700 other artifacts.

Dug up from a burial chamber in 1948, the crown is one of just a few Hun crowns worldwide. The museum worker said other treasures that disappeared with Russian soldiers include 198 pieces of 2,400-year-old gold from the era of the Scythians, nomads who migrated from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine and founded an empire in Crimea.

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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-travel-museums-7431f2190d917f44f76dff39b4d5df54
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Re: Ukraine says Russia looted ancient gold artifacts from a museum. by drolaf on Thursday, 05 May 2022
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The media have chosen just to discuss the Scythian artefacts, but they are only part of what was taken. Most of the items were Soviet and Tsarist era and culture, and the older artefacts are of Russian and Asian culture. The Mariupol museum art and artefacts were taken to Donetsk, so maybe the Melitopol ones have too. If so the artefacts are relatively safe, eg a lot safer than those looted from the Iraq museum in 2003, many of which went to illegal private collections in UK and USA and were never recovered.

Here is the list of items

48 units of historical weapons (31 firearms + 17 edged weapons: 17th century - the first half of the 20th century);
1793 items made of precious metals: 302 - gold, 1491 - silver.
Among the 302 items of gold:
198 decorations from the Melitopol Scythian mound (4th century BC);
76 objects of the Hun and Sarmatian period 3-5 centuries AD;
3 – ring and two coins (20-21st centuries);
25 units - awards of the Soviet era.
Silver - 1491 units, among them:
322 coins - Dukhobor treasure (1761-1824)
324 coins - NEP treasure 1921-1924;
845 - orders and medals of the Soviet era.


(Much of the Dukhobor treasure was ‘given’ to local Melitopol councillors by a museum worker so was ‘stolen’ in 1963!)
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Ukraine says Russia looted ancient gold artifacts from a museum. by XIII on Tuesday, 03 May 2022
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KYIV, Ukraine — The heist started when a mysterious man in a white lab coat showed up at the museum.

A squad of Russian soldiers stood behind him, with guns, watching eagerly.

Using long tweezers and special gloves, the man in the white coat carefully extracted scores of special gold artifacts more than 2,300 years old from cardboard boxes in the cellar of a museum in Melitopol, a southern town in Russian-occupied territory, Ukrainian officials said. The gold items were from the Scythian empire and dated back to the fourth century B.C.

Then the mysterious expert, the Russian soldiers and the gold disappeared.

“The orcs have taken hold of our Scythian gold,” declared Melitopol’s mayor, Ivan Fyodorov, using a derogatory term many Ukrainians reserve for Russian soldiers. “This is one of the largest and most expensive collections in Ukraine, and today we don’t know where they took it.”

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