This open air museum is situated on the route between Irkutsk and Baikal Lake, a few kilometers before you get to the lake It's absolutely worth the visit and is absolutely no "tourist trap" but an attempt to preserve the old Siberian, Pre-Russian architecture IIt gives you a picture how people used to live and survive in this wilderness. The old buildings have been saved from different parts of Siberia, some of them were rescued when the water of Angara when it rose due to the built of a hydropower plant They still have several buildings that haven't been raised yet due to funding problems

1. Siberia
Taltsy Museum
of
wooden architectura

2. Open in 1980, the Taltsy museum is conveniently situated on the road between
Lake Baikal and Irkust
It show houses and way of life in Siberia , some were built from larch tree, more
than 300 years ago, without nails

3. It is an attempt to preserve the old Siberian, pre-russian architecture

4. The territory of the museum occupies an area of 67 hectares.

5. The old buildings
have been saved
from different
parts of Siberia

6. There are more than 40 historical-architectural monuments and about 9,000 items which are of
significant historical value

8. Some of them were rescued when the water of Angara river rose due to the built hydropower
plant

11. The exhibition gives
an idea of
conditions of life
and cultural
features of peoples
who inhabited the
Baikal region in 19th
- beginning of 20th
centuries

12. A “Guardian”..quite
interested in choose
music to listen

15. Kazanskaya chapel of
former Ilimsk
fortress (1667-1679)

16. To know how people used
to live in Siberia, you can
see this place. It focuses on
Russians people

17. A classroom from a
parish-school dating
from year 1800

19. Visitors to the
museum can walk
the museum
grounds, stopping
in at each building
to see tools,
clothes, furniture,
and other
everyday objects
from past
centuries of
Eastern Siberian
village life

20. It gives a picture
how people used
to live and survive
in this wilderness

22. During the
summer, there
are cafe and
antique shop
work on the
territory of the
museum

29. . The museum is located in a picturesque place on the right bank of the Angara River

33. Mostly
visitors are
from
Russia

39. https://www.youtube.com/user/nikkitta8 By María
mocampos@gmail.com
The Museum of wooden
architecture in the open air
“Taltsy” is opened every day
from 10.00 to 4.00 in winter,
from 10.00 to 6.00 in
summer.
During the summer, there
are cafe and antique shop
work on the territory of the
museum
Music: Mix of Russian folk with a song by Ivan Rebroff