Museum of useless things
Recycling-plant museum of discarded antiques, Soviet relics and a giant Lenin rescued from scrap.
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This guide to the Museum of Useless Things in Kyiv takes you inside a working recycling plant on the city's left bank, where decades of discarded belongings passed through the gates. It follows the factory workers who, in the nineteen-nineties, started looking twice at what people had thrown away. Stand among the phonographs, samovars and barber's tools of the indoor hall to hear it.
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