Can you see all of Ukraine specialities during one day?
And even more than that – to travel in time by a couple of centuries ago? Yes you can, if you visit Pirohovo! Less than an hour drive from the centre of Kiev – and you find yourself in the middle of a village lost in a forest and get a colorful holiday! Let me explain: Pirohovo (Pirohiv) is a museum of architecture under the open air.
Pirohovo is an architecture and landscape museum under open air. It includes all main examples of historic and ethnographic 
regions of Ukraine of ХVI – ХХ centuries. The museum was founded in Pirogovo village in the outskirts of Kyiv in 1969. Iis area is over 150 hectare, which conveniently accommodate over three hundred pieces of architecture. First visitors attended the museum in 1976. For more than 30 years this place is attracting visitors in summer, winter and other seasons. During summer holidays and weekends 
it appears to gather more people than famous Khreshatyk street. Choose at your taste, when you like to walk down the Pirohovo lanes. On «attendance» days the hills are covered by resting visitors who are having shashlyk (grilled meat), restaurants – are filled by lovers of home-like-food, and you can enter houses-museums, mills, churches and have a horse ride. If you are romantic – in local wooden churches (acting!) you can organize wedding. Nice choice! On the market days on the central place in Pirohovo you can meet people in folk garments. You can choose for yourself hand-made shirts, and in addition – hats, bags, straw-shews, cushions, carpets, etc. You can also attend 
master-classes on pottery and other crafts: And all of this is surrounded by sounds of Ukrainian native music! Those devoted to calm walking and privacy will choose to visit Pirohovo on weekdays, in order to avoid long lines to purchase entry tickets. It’s also a good idea to come here in Winter or Spring, to really feel yourself a resident of Ukrainian countryside. You can choose a region at your taste: Transcarpatia, Poltava and Slobozhanshchina, Podil, Polessie, or Southern Ukraine. The nature will support the exhibition – hills are covered with Ukrainian ‘hatas’ (houses), clouds pouring over your head, ‘troyka’ of horses is running past a wooden church with a bell, black silhouettes of mills against sunset – all this is worth an artists brush and will sure satisfy a dreamer.
Pirohovo welcomes you! 🙂
Format of the journey: weekend trip.
Season of the year: any.
National museum of folk architecture and crafts of Ukraine is working without holidays. Open hours: 10:00 to 17:00. (at 17.00 the houses close for visitors, but you can walk on the territory until late).
Practical things:
There is a parking lot at the entrance as well as a small convenience store where you can buy water, drinks and some snacks. There is no smoking in the area. On national holidays there is usually a special program.
Map of the Pirohovo museum:
Symbols on the map:
1. Naddnepryanschina
2. Poltavschina
3. Marshy woodlands (Polesie)
4. Podil
5. Carpathians
6. South of Ukraine
7. Folk crafts
How to drive there
To drive to Pirogovo head down Krasnoarmyiska, at the end turn right to Druzhby Narodov, pass Moskovska ploshad and follow signs to Zhytomir & Odessa. Pass Holosiivskyi Park (Exhibition center) and continue straight until you reach the Ring Road (Okruzhnaya). Exit under the bridge to get on Okruzhnaya, once there follow signs to Kharkov. When the road narrows, the division between the lanes disappears and you see green hills in front of you, watch for a violet gas station. When you pass that, take the first U-Turn, go back about 300 meters and take first right – there you will see a sign in Russian saying ‘Muzey’.
Or use Marshrutka 156 from metro Lybydskaya.
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