Our Favorite Tourist Site- National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine

We have been to this outdoor museum twice. It is our favorite place to visit only being about a 15 minute Uber drive. 

This place is a 360 acre area outside of Kiev. You can see a portion of the Dnieper River among the trees from the highest spot on the grounds. 

The historical society has gone around to the different villages and have brought some of the historical homes, dating back to the 1800's to early 1900's, to this site. Some of the churches date back to the 1600's. One church was built on the site as a replica. A village was set up that included homes from the 1950's and 1960's. A lot of the homes we were able to go inside. 

The first time we went was during "The Honey Festival." We were able to watch outdoor Ukrainian Folk Singers while we ate lunch.

This little girl was a 4 minute friend. She loved having her picture taken. Many of the visitors dressed in Ukrainian Shirts and dressed for the occasion. 

These villages represent the Solboda and South Ukraine regions. Each village home is constructed a little differently and have their own unique designs around the windows and door frames.
 

The white home is from the Bolvoyna Region and the right upper home was from the 1950's era.

The roofs are thick piled reeds (straw). 

The right lower home is from Carpathia Region and the singers were part of the outdoor show. 

Storage huts from Solboda

Reconstructed Building from Polissa (upper right)

Church from Carpathia (lower left)

House and Beehives from Polissa. (lower right)

One thing that amazed us was the fact that these homes were pretty well maintained and preserved. 

They also had outdoor grill food vendors. The food was very good.

You can actually rent bikes, golf carts (tour carts), scooters, or small motorbikes (like mopeds) and see the sites that way.

More photos from Ukraine just a site I found.

Website for Museum

There are many windmills located on the property. Some of the windmills you could turn the whole windmill at the base of the windmill so the wind could turn the turbines efficiently, and some of the windmills could be turned only at the top portion of the windmill along with the turbines. 

Our time there was very pleasant and if we had visitors, this is the one place we would take them. The museum is also open all year long....so winter would be interesting.