malye karely open air museum

With few exceptions it is the only place you can bring your guest from other region/country.Fabulous collection of traditional timber houses and nice envisonment. When you are in Archangel even for a short while - visit and enjoy!

Nice Historical sturcutures and great area to walk and take pictures. They have a place you can grap something to eat for lunch serving some traditional Russian foods

The only thing that rivals it is Skansen in Stockholm. quite unexpected as a find in such a remote location. A reconstruction of Russian villages on a many-acre site. A MUST if in Arkhangelsk.

Interesting and fascinating place to visit. While entering I let the locals do the talking since they charge foreigners differently (cheaper this way). Excellent place for architure and culture fans, not to forget normal day-trippers. The place is a bit hard to reach, I used local buses which were amazingly cheap. Nearby a nice hotel and good russian restaurant. I recommend for a day trip.

This place is a special place of interest. I first visited here on 16 June 2001. Today we retraced our steps. In September 2005, I attended my nephew's wedding reception here. The place is very interesting and I have taken hundreds of photographs of this museum and today was no exception (113 photos). Adjacent to the museum is the Tourist Village which offers very comfortable accommodation and a warm Russian welcome.Regretably there is little access for disabled people and no cafe.

Walking around "town" was a step back in time. Our lovely guide greeted us with bread and salt. She was dressed in traditional costume, which suited her quite well! The museum is not big, and it is all outside. The weather was warm and the walk very comfortable. We spent some time inside one of the houses. Our guide explained how these wooden buildings were kept warm throughout the window using fire, and a technique where the smoke settled at the top of the house, keeping things toasty.The home appeared rather large, but it had merely a few rooms. The main room had a table, which never would have been moved, along with built-in benches for the men and boys of the family and movable benches for the girls and women. A cradle covered by mama's skirt hung near the table. A beautiful wooden church and chapel sit in the center of town. The wealthy houses are on the other side. A very unique and worthwhile visit.

This museum is not really in the city, but it's not far and worth visiting. There was still lots of snow when we were there, which made it seem more magical (if you're dressed for it). The old wooden structures are beautiful and the staff dressed in period costumes to welcome you with bread and salt is a nice touch. We didn't have any kids in our group, but several of us regressed very quickly to our childhood when we had a chance to try out the old-fashioned swings, learn to make old-time crafts and take a sleigh ride.

If its crisp weather(you'll understand what i mean by 'crisp' if you are in North Russia) it is a great place to go for a day trio especially if you have kids.The wooden buildings and strucutures look nice and is nice in the eyes after all the drab soviet style buildings in Arkhangelsk. Nice and safe picnic spot. The maslenitsa days can get really crowded and beware of the bliny sold outside - there are chances of getting the runs!! Try to go on weekend - you can sometimes see newly-weds coming in for a traditional ceremony...great insight into pre-soviet culture and language.Walk across the wood bridge/pathway onto the otherside - for some quietness. Great place to take long walks(wear some comfortable shoes), find a nice spot and sit and meditate( or chug down cans beer - like the locals sometimes do). But overall its a great place as far as Arkhangelsk is concerned. Unless it is maslenitsa weekend, you can take the PAZ bus from city centre to Maley Karely

Some interesting wooden architecture, nothing more, nothing less. Can be seen in an hour or two. Very nice during wintertime. Recommended since there is not much elase to do in Arkhangelsk.Going there: By taxi around 600 Rubles.The way back is easy by bus, only around 100 Rubles or so.

Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Arts is located 25 KM from Arkhangelsk, a city in northern part of Russia, founded in 1584. The Museum area is divided into six sectors. Each sector is a model of settlement with the layout and the typical buildings. There are more than 100 monuments including churches, chapels, houses, store houses, Russian traditional bath houses (Banya) mills, wells etc..., There are also artists in traditional costumes to give a real feeling.

Because of time constraints, we spent far too short a time here with our cruise ship group and would advise individual travellers to devote half a day to this museum if they are at all interested in wooden buildings and folk art. We were greeted at the entrance by smiling young guides bearing bread'n'salt in their hands and encouraged to partake of this traditional Russian welcome. We then divided into groups of 15 and were whizzed around in an hour or so. The sprawling park displays several churches, mills and windmills, farmhouses of different styles and sizes all set in a beautiful forests. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE MOSQUITOES. Take lots of repellent: head nets would be even better (you might feel foolish, but you won't get bitten, provided youi've totally covered up elsewhere.) A bonus during our visit was the fun of watching the bridal party that came here for a photo shoot.

I liked very much in the Malye Karely, near the bus ride from Arkhangelsk.A huge number of old wooden architecture: monasteries, cottages, bath houses, mills, taverns, wells, granaries. A large area of ​​the museum-reserve in the forest zone. Very quietly, the terms of coniferous and deciduous forest. A very beautiful place.Museum staff is very interesting to tell about the history of the region and the lives of local people, as people hunted fish and hunted animals in the past, was created as a museum and how hard it was to keep the Soviet era.

I made the trek to Malye Karely in March 2011, and despite the fact that many of the buildings were closed in the winter, I still had an enjoyable visit and would recommend to all. Very reasonable, and the mueseum ahd excellent examples of how the wooden buildings were constructed.

This museum basically is the largest collection of ancient wooden architecture in Russia. Marvelous houses and churches date back as far as to 16th century. They were carefully selected across the vast Arkhangelsk region and moved to the museum, placed in clusters representing the traditional setups of various districts of the province. Thanks to the reasonably large territory of the museum and diverse landscapes, there was a lucky opportunity to place most of the buildings in the scenery which suited it best to resemble the authentic location. Such clusters, or ensembles, illustrate vividly how smart were our ancestors in adapting to diverse climates and landscapes. More to that, many of the buildings house rather interesting exhibitions of local folk art and ancient household, while the administration of the museum makes an effort to revive the old traditions and demonstrate them to the public. They even grow rye and oath at the site, making flour at an old windmill and baking bread just as peasants were doing hundreds years ago. Sophisticated art of ringing the church bells is also well alive, impressing not only foreigners, but the locals as well.

Malye Karely is an open-air museum of old russian wooden architecture, some 20-25km away from the center of Arkhangelsk. Interesting place to walk around a while before going to eat in restaurant nearby. There were lots of locals visiting the place and some performers in old costumes. Place can be reached by taxi or bus (nro 104). There is a hotel and a good restaurant just across the street. Access was couple of euros - different prices for Russians and foreigners.