The Museum of Space Exploration is housed in a small wooden church 80 kilometers outside of Kyiv. It is one of 30 historical buildings open to visitors at Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi’s ethnographic park. Its small collection boasts several rare objects including Gagarin’s red training parachute, the scaphanders of various cosmonauts, and a real-scale model of the space capsule.
This is genius. The secret to preserving old architecture is getting someone to care about it and use it, even if the purpose is way different or even contradictory.
ReplyDeleteNow that I've read the article, it's more complicated than that. To save the building, they HAD to use it for something other than a church.
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