Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex
Yellow-brick eighteenth-century cannon workshop reborn as a vast home for art and festivals.
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This audio guide to Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv follows a theatre director in September 2007, as he leads his experimental troupe and its audience into a half-restored imperial munitions workshop. It weaves in Catherine the Great's order for the building, its six-foot walls, and the army that kept it for generations. Best heard outside, facing the long yellow-brick facade.
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