Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve 'Shchelokovsky Khutor'

About museum

The Municipal Autonomous Cultural Institution '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 grounds of 35.9 hectares there is a natural monument of regional significance — a forest divided by two deep ravines into three parts. The museum was established in 2014 based on the property of the Museum of Architecture and Everyday Life of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region, which opened in 1973. The purpose of the museum's activity 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 an order of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated 1958.