Water Museum

Kyiv


The Dutch funded the launch of this museum inside a 1980s water pump, but it now operates independently. On the obligatory 45-minute tour (in English by request), you're taken on a walk through a rainwater collector, allowed to sit on a giant toilet or stand inside a bubble, and introduced to a yellow fish called Vasily. Good for children.

Transportation

  • metro: Maidan Nezalezhnosti

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