People don traditional embroidered shirts and head to the Pirohovo open-air museum on the outskirts of Kiev.

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Covering an area of 75 acres, this huge open-air museum was established in 1891 to recreate the atmosphere of a provincial Swedish town from the early 19th century.

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The open-air Museum, which covers an area of 58 hectares and includes 124 buildings in its collection, recreates the Ukrainian villages of the past by displaying wooden houses and churches with associated artefacts according to ethnographic region.

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One of the biggest undertakings would be a 17, 800-bed Olympic Village, designed in an "open-air museum" concept, which would "be fully financed and guaranteed by the City of Madrid" to ensure "minimum risk factor, " according to the city's application, submitted in February.

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