Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve 'Shchelokovsky Khutor'

About museum

The Municipal Autonomous Cultural Institution of Culture 'Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve Shchelokovsky Khutor' consists of monuments of wooden architecture reflecting Russian architectural and construction culture of the 17th–20th centuries. On the museum territory of 35.9 hectares there is a natural monument of regional significance — a forest divided into three parts by two deep ravines. The museum was established in 2014 on the basis of the property of the Museum of Architecture and Everyday Life of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region, which opened in 1973. The museum's purpose is the preservation, study and promotion of the people's cultural heritage based on movable and immovable monuments of folk culture. The basis for opening the museum was the order of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR from 1958.