Museum of Folk Art
About museum
The city manor of Penza timber-industrialist Stepan Lavrentyevich Tyurin houses the Museum of Folk Art. The building is a regional monument of wooden architecture dating from the mid-19th century. In the 1970s the Sorokin brothers became famous for restoring the two-story wooden house with a mezzanine, decorated with openwork fretwork of scroll-sawn lace. On January 7, 1975 an exhibition hall was opened here which housed the leadership of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Immediately afterward the exhibition hall acquired the status of the Museum of Folk Art. The museum's collection includes examples of various folk traditions: carving, painting on wood, wickerwork, carpet weaving, down knitting, ceramics, artistic blacksmithing, embroidery, and weaving. Since 2017 the museum and exhibition center has been a department of the Penza Local History Museum.