Historical and Cultural Complex "New Sloboda"

About museum

The Historical and Cultural Complex "New Sloboda" includes a craft park and a museum building dedicated to the history of Slobozhanshchyna from the late 16th century. It features five exhibition halls and a cinema hall covering 295 square meters. In the halls visitors can learn about the settlement of the southern frontier of the Russian state, the characteristics of Russian and Ukrainian cultures, goods of the 19th–20th centuries, the history of the village of Kolotylivka, and can also see a reconstructed office of the kolkhoz chairman. The cinema hall shows a five-minute sand animation film about crafts. A picturesque craft park is located a few minutes' walk from the museum, with six wattle-and-daub cottages and workshops of a potter, a cooper, an icon painter, a distiller, an oil presser and a basket weaver. Here visitors can take master classes and see three post mills. Visitors to the complex can take away not only vivid memories but also a wide assortment of souvenirs.