Museum of Architecture and People's Lives in the Volga Region of Nizhny Novgorod

Museum of Architecture and People's Lives in the Volga Region of Nizhny Novgorod

House from the middle of the 19th century
Data
place	Nizhny Novgorod
Art	open air museum
opening	3rd June 1973
management	Bugrova Marina Stanislavovna

The Museum of Architecture and People's Lives in the Volga Region of Nizhny Novgorod in Semenkovo ​​( Russian Музей архитектуры и быта народов Нижегородского Поволжья , Russia ) is an open-air museum on the outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod , Russia .

The construction of the museum began in 1969 by the regional board of the city then called Gorky . The museum opened on June 3, 1973. The museum shows the rural wooden architecture of the 19th century from the northern areas of the Nizhi Novgorod region. Currently (2013) the museum has 15 buildings: two wooden churches, two large farmhouses, a water mill, a windmill (currently without a wing), several huts and outbuildings and barns. Most of the facades of the houses are decorated with traditional ornaments. The interior of the houses has been restored and furnished with contemporary rural furniture.

The museum organizes historical festivals on traditional holidays.

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See also

• List of European open air museums

Web links

Commons : Nizhny Novgorod Museum of Architecture and Life of Volga basin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about the museum and museum tour (Russian)

Coordinates: 56 ° 16 ′ 27 ″  N , 44 ° 0 ′ 38 ″  E