Ibresinsky Ethnographic Museum

About museum

Ibresinsky Ethnographic Museum — the first ethnopark in the Chuvash Republic — offers visitors authentic buildings and household items of folk art. The museum's area is about 1.5 hectares, and the collections include more than 5,000 items. The complex includes a peasant homestead, a windmill, a two-storey barn, an ethnographic hall with examples of folk decorative and applied arts, Chuvash national costume, utensils, and tools. You can also see the interiors of a mid-20th-century Chuvash izba with traditional craft activities. In addition, the museum has an art gallery with documentary-illustrative, ethnographic, and art exhibitions from its own collections and traveling exhibitions from other museums of the republic. The local history department provides much information about participants of the Great Patriotic War, the history of the Ibresinskaya Flight School, and the legendary pilot-hero A. P. Maresyev.