International Museum Day in Zabrodie

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Every year since 1977 International Museum Day is organised worldwide around May 18. This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society. These recent years, International Museum Day has been experiencing its highest involution with almost 30,000 museums that organised activities in more than 120 countries. Zabrodye invites everyone to make a small trip in time (in the era of the First World War and the USSR) completely FREE.

From 11:00 to 19:00 you can visit:

1. Museum of the First World War

Things of the soldiers, the memory of love in wartime, uniforms, photos... Behind every thing there's someone's fate, life, feelings, the horror of the tragedy.

2. Museum of Retro Technology

Retro cars of the Second World War period and the German Wehrmacht: cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, an airplane. The best are: ZIS 5, GAZ 67, Willys, M1, Vander, Opel Kadett, Opel Blitz, BMW R 71.

3. Museum of everyday life a hundred years ago

To feel the identity of the culture of our people and to see how people lived in the old days, you can in the ethnographic museum Zabrodye. Fully equipped kitchen: table, appliances, handles, pots ... Living room with furniture of that time, beds, firewood near the oven, wardrobe, musical instruments.

Also you can visit:

• A garden of memory with the trees planted by famous people.

• Lazarette cemetery of army units.

• The place of death of Cossack Daniil Shevchenko.

• Burial of soldiers.

• A memorial chapel in honor of the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

• 6-meter cross near the military camp «Komarishki».

You can relax in a summer cafe, where you can buy national treats, you can ride in retro cars and shoot in the dash. (For more information you can visit www.zabrodje.com).

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