siberia (taltsy museum)

SiberiaTaltsy Museum

of wooden architectura

Open in 1980, the Taltsy museum is conveniently situated on the road between Lake Baikal and IrkustIt show houses and way of life in Siberia , some were built from larch tree, more than 300 years ago, without nails

It is an attempt to preserve the old Siberian, pre-russian architecture

The territory of the museum occupies an area of 67 hectares.

The old buildings have been saved

from different parts of Siberia

There are more than 40 historical-architectural monuments and about 9,000 items which are of significant historical value

Some of them were rescued when the water of Angara river rose due to the built hydropower plant

The exhibition gives an idea of

conditions of life and cultural

features of peoples who inhabited the

Baikal region in 19th - beginning of 20th

centuries

A “Guardian”..quite interested in choose

music to listen

Kazanskaya chapel of former Ilimsk

fortress (1667-1679)

To know how people used to live in Siberia, you can

see this place. It focuses on Russians people

A classroom from a parish-school dating

from year 1800

Visitors to the museum can walk

the museum grounds, stopping in at each building

to see tools, clothes, furniture,

and other everyday objects

from past centuries of

Eastern Siberian village life

It gives a picture how people used to live and survive in this wilderness

During the summer, there

are cafe and antique shop work on the

territory of the museum

. The museum is located in a picturesque place on the right bank of the Angara River

Mostly visitors are

from Russia

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The Museum of wooden architecture in the open air “Taltsy” is opened every day from 10.00 to 4.00 in winter,

from 10.00 to 6.00 in summer.

During the summer, there are cafe and antique shop

work on the territory of the museum

Music: Mix of Russian folk with a song by Ivan Rebroff