Description of the attraction
The Polar Odysseus Museum is the only place in Russia where, according to ancient drawings, copies of old Russian ships are recreated and long sea voyages are made on them, simulating, following the example of Thor Heyerdahl, the ancient routes of the discoverers of the New Lands. The base "Polar Odyssey" is located in Petrozavodsk on the territory of the Karelian Sea Historical and Cultural Center.
30 historic wooden ships have been designed and built over the past years at the Club's Maritime Historical and Cultural Center. The ships of the club have visited more than 20 countries of the world, having visited Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
Today in the open-air museum you can see a collection of the most famous models of historical ships, recreated by the "Polar Odyssey". These are the medieval koch "Pomor" of the 15th - 17th centuries, the old Russian boat "Love" of the 12th century, the remake of the Pomor merchant boat of the 17th - 19th centuries "St. Nicholas". You can also see here an exact copy of the "Peter I" boat.
Outside, the Marine Center looks like a wooden building with an attic, from which the bow of a large wooden frigate with a mast, cables and a bowsprit protrudes directly into the lake. On this nose, if desired, forty people can fit. The land ship was built in 1995. At first, a building was erected with a spacious living room, an office, work rooms, a small guest room and a bathhouse; a little later, a solid wooden pier moved out into the lake directly from the porch, to which the ships of the center now dock, and, in the end, the famous ship's bow with a real deck, on which there are now quite real cannons.
On the territory of the Maritime Center, you can also visit the stylized wardroom "Sea Wolf", where members of expeditions gather upon their return from long voyages.
