The open-air museum on the Kaiserwald was opened in 1971. The idea of ​​creating this museum belongs to the famous Ukrainian scientist Hilarion Sventsitsky, who in the late 20s of the XX century began work on creating an open-air museum. The exposition of the museum includes 124 architectural monuments, which are united in 54 estates. The Museum has 4 exhibition halls. Two of them have a permanent exhibition. The permanent exposition and repositories of the museum contain about 20 thousand items of everyday life and applied arts. The territory of the museum with an area of ​​36 hectares is conditionally divided into six ethnographic zones. Each zone is a mini-village consisting of 15-20 monuments of folk architecture. Everyday household items, agricultural equipment, vehicles and handicraft tools are placed in residential and commercial premises. Six such mini-villages have names: "Boykivshchyna", "Lemkivshchyna", "Hutsulshchyna", "Bukovyna", "Podillya" and "Lvivshchyna", and the last three are rarely visited by tourists, because they are not very informative. Of the more than 120 architectural monuments from the western regions of Ukraine, 6 are wooden churches. The oldest exhibit is a peasant house from 1749. There is also a smithy, a school, a sawmill, a loom, a water mill and a windmill.