Museum
Mykola Siadrystyi Micro Miniatures Museum
Microscope-viewed gallery of gold chess sets on pinheads, shod fleas and books smaller than a grain.
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This guide to the Mykola Siadrystyi Micro Miniatures Museum in Kyiv starts at the eyepiece of one microscope, above a gold chess set no hand could ever play. It follows a craftsman's dare that runs from a nineteenth-century Russian fairy tale about a clockwork flea to a Ukrainian agronomist turned engineer turned miniaturist. Best heard bent over the chess set's lens, with the flea cases close by.
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