Operating hours: daily, from 10:00am to 5:00pm.
The Taltsy Museum of Architecture and Ethnography (the Wooden Architecture Museum) is appraised by decree from the President of the Russian Federation as a highly valuable object of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia.
Founded in 1969, the Taltsy museum is conveniently situated on the road to Lake
Baikal, 47 km of the Baikal highway. Its 67-hectare territory is surrounded with
a protected area. There are over 40 monuments of architectural heritage and
8,000 exhibits of high historical value. Two architectural-ethnographical areas
- Russian and Buryat - show a large variety of housing and life of the
Siberians.
The most valuable monuments in Taltsy are the Savior's gate tower of the ostrog
(fort) of Ilimsk (1667) and an active Kazan Chapel (1679). Both of them, as well
as the houses near the Angara floodlands, were transferred to this place from
the flooded areas of the Ust-Ilimskaya. Take the opportunity to see and be
acquainted with the life of old Siberia.
At the museum of the wooden architcture
Fedor Babanine ( webmaster@icc.ru
)
06/20/03