Description of the attraction
The Malye Korely Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art is 25 km away. from Arkhangelsk, on the picturesque bank of the Northern Dvina near the village of Malye Korely, has been open to visitors since 1973. This is the first open-air museum in Russia, the formation of which was carried out on the basis of preliminary architectural, historical and ethnographic studies that scientifically substantiated the selection of monuments and their placement.
On the territory of 140 hectares, there are more than 100 religious, residential and economic buildings of the 17th-20th centuries. The exposition is built on the principle of sectors, which are models of settlements most characteristic of the Russian North with a characteristic layout and a full set of residential and utility buildings. Each sector is solved as a fragment of a village, where not only individual structures are important, but also their mutual relationship with each other. The concept of the museum plans to create six sectors, each of which should reflect a certain type of peasant settlements characteristic of the basins of the largest rivers of the Arkhangelsk region:
Windmills give the museum a distinctive and unique look. The pride of the museum is a collection of bells and an extraordinary exposition "Northern Ringing". In 1975, the museum was the first to revive this ancient art. During folk festivals, when centuries-old songs and tales are heard, when the museum is colored with bright colors of ancient costumes, the traditional northern bells can be heard far away, echoing the merry ringing of bells under the arch of horses.
More than 100 thousand people visit the museum annually, the annual festive cycle of folk rituals has been revived here, folklore festivals are held. Visitors can take part in games and fun, ride in a sleigh pulled by trotters with a breeze, taste shanegs and pancakes with hot tea. And all this against the backdrop of unique monuments of folk architecture and beautiful northern nature.
