The program is the continuation of the earlier inter-museum scientific research projects which the National Museum in Warsaw led since 1994 r. in the co-operation with the institutions of culture and science of Ukraine in Kerch at the Crimea. The program is continued in the new, altered formula after his suspension in 2015 r. The legal basis of the is the agreement about co-operation signed in 2012 r. between the National Museum in Warsaw and the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev and the agreement signed in 2016 about start of the archaeological co-operation on the ancient city of Olbia. It made possible start in the year 2016 activity of the Polish Archaeological Mission "Olbia" of the National Museum in Warsaw. First phase of works is foreseen until the end of the year 2018 and is fully fund by the grant of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.