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
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
6. There are more than 40 historical-architectural monuments and about 9,000 items which are of
significant historical value
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8. Some of them were rescued when the water of Angara river rose due to the built hydropower
plant
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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
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
39. https://www.youtube.com/user/nikkitta8 By María
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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