MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY

The Bendery Museum of Ethnography and History was founded in 1914 and its historical section opened in the early 1960s. The museum's collection includes 60,000 items related to botany, zoology, entomology, paleontology and ethnography. The museum is divided into thirteen thematic rooms dealing with the nature and environment of the city and the region, Bendery in the Middle Ages, the birth of the revolutionary movement, the "Romanian" occupation, the Second World War, the Soviet period and finally the contemporary period. One can see a bronze axe from the second millennium BC, ceramics of the Chernakov culture, a ghetto bowl from the 4th-2nd century BC, amphorae from the 4th century, Slav battle axes from the 9th and 10th centuries, a fragment of the marble plaque from the entrance to the Bendery fortress, weapons from the Russian-Turkish wars of the 18th and 19th centuries, and photographs of Bendery (TIghina) in the 19th and 20th centuries. One can also admire models and dioramas by Zykov and Dmitrienko on the Bendery fortress and its assault by the Russian army in 1770, the advance of the Red Army in 1944, the interior of a working room in 1960.

The natural science section presents a wide range of naturalized birds, forest animals from Hîrbovăț, fish from the Dniester, minerals, dioramas of the Dniester landscape, and discusses current environmental issues.