Europe · Germany · Berlin
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Russia · Moscow
The Moscow Archaeological Museum (the Museum, for short) was opened in 1997. It is situated in the city centre, in a pavilion, 7 metres (23 feet) underground, directly at the spot of the large-scale archaeological research performed in Manezhnaya Square in 1993 to 1997. The exposition of the Museum is based on the piers of the 16th — 17th century V...
Europe · France · Voiron
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Black Sea · Ukraine · Sevastopol
Tauric Chersonesos is the name of the city founded by colonists from ancient Greece over two and a half thousand years ago in the south-western part of the Crimea. Nowadays its ruins are one of the most important sights of Sevastopol.
In ancient Greek the word "chersonesos" means "peninsula". The city is situated on a small peninsula between two...
Volga River · Russia · Kostroma
The museum was opened in 1970. In 1955, the first exhibits (the Church of the Transfiguration built of wood in 1713 and pillar-based baths) were brought here from the Kostroma Lowlands.
This most interesting open-air museum presents 16th to 19th century churches, bell towers, cottages and household outbuildings brought from different districts c...
Europe · Hungary · Budapest
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Europe · Hungary · Budapest
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Volga River · Russia · Kostroma
"Land of flax — Kostroma" is the name of the exposition of the Museum, which presents old and modern fabrics and clothes, demonstrates processing of flax in details.
Visitors of the Museum can not only see masters working for spinning wheels and looms, but also try themselves in these kinds of handcraft.
The name of the second hall of the Mus...
Ukraine · Lviv
The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (the Museum, for short) is situated in an picturesque urban forest called the Shevchenkovsky Forest and is one of Europe's largest museums of this kind. The Museum occupies land that used to belong to the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra.
The Museum was created in 1971; it is based on the ethnographic principle an...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (the Museum, for short), which is situated in Pirogovo Village, Kiev, is one of the most famous open-air museums of ethnography.
The Museum occupies an area of 150 hectares (370 acres), which accommodates around 300 objects. A standard, 3-hour tour will not be enough to go around the entire museum. Apart ...