Kiev - Museum of Folk Architecture And Rural Life, Ukraine

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It is an open-air museum. The museum consists of two departments: Architecture and life in the Ukrainian Village Before the Revolution and Folk Architecture and Life in the Socialist Village. The museum has some 40,000 ethnographic exhibits, including folk costumes, fabrics, embroidery, carpets, ceramics, articles of metal, wood, glassware, musical instruments, paintings, tools, household articles and the like. The first department of the museum is divided into six sections: 1. Middle Dnieper area; 2. Poltava area and Slobodian Ukraine (Slobozhanshchina); 3. Polesye; 4. Podolia; 5. The Carpathians; and 6. Southern Ukraine. The second department preads over 13 hectares and consists of houses and domestic buildings of the 1960's and 1970's from 25 administrative regions, arranged in accordance with the natural and ethnographic zones already mentioned.

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