Museum of Wooden Architecture, Central Russia, Russia
4.5 (1.149 reviews) Sunday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #3 in Vladimir Oblast Speciality Museums • Architectural Buildings • Churches & Cathedrals
Wooden fairy tale
On the place of the former monastery of St Demetrius one can find another marvel of traditional Russian architecture – an open-air Museum of Wooden Architecture. Several churches, houses, and other authentic 18th and 19th-century wooden buildings were brought here from all over the Vladimir region in the 1960–1970s. The man-made beauty of the monuments of folk architecture merged wonderfully with the landscape of centuries-old Suzdal. The Church of the Transfiguration (1756) seems to be a town cut in wood, with its parts of different sizes and shapes ingeniously connected by the carpenters who built the entire church without metal nails. The recently reconstructed Church of the Resurrection (1776) belongs to the type of “boat-shaped” churches, when all parts of the building stretch along one axis. The ship (bark, or boat) is an ancient Christian symbol comparing the Church to the Noah’s Ark. The object is under the operational management of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve.
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Pushkarskaya St., 27B, Suzdal 601293 Russia
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http://www.vladmuseum.ru/ru/geografiya-muzeya/suzdal/muzey-derevyannogo-zodchestva/
Working hours
Monday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 14:48
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4.5 based on (1.149 reviews)
Reviews
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5alexey2612 5:00 PM Mar 31, 2020
Best wooden architecture museum near Moscow
It is one of the best open-air museums of wooden architechture in Russia. If we are talking about the close proximity to Moscow, probably it is the museum you should visit. As for the museum, you can visit different churches - winter and summer one, as well as different housing types - for rich and poor peasants. I was there with a large group that had a guided tour so my visit was quite long and it was worth it.
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5Lee W 5:00 PM Dec 19, 2019
The best examples of wooden buildings we saw whilst in Russia.
A church for both summer and winter, that is two churches. But also a rich mans house, a middle class house and two poor men’s houses all from the 19 th century or earlier. That was fascinating as they had furniture, bedding, cooking utensils as well as farm machinery. There are other places in Russia where we saw wooden houses either singly or several. BUT this one had a brilliant display as well as clean, plentiful toilets. The problem is your guides seem to think Cathedrals, Kremlin's and wooden houses are the only things in which you are interested and you become inured to them all but this one is actually really worth the effort.
