Ivan Honchar Museum
Folk-culture museum of icons, textiles and village crafts gathered by a Soviet-era sculptor.
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This guide to the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv follows a sculptor who, from the late nineteen fifties, filled his home with village icons, cloth and pottery that the Soviet state considered worthless. It turns on the strangers who came to his door wanting to buy, and on what a sale for hard currency really meant in the Soviet Union. You'll also meet the young visitors who crowded his rooms, and his nephew Petro, who remembered.
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