Nizhny Novgorod district museum of wooden architecture (Nizhny Novgorod)

Russia / Nizhnij Novgorod / Nizhniy Novgorod / Nizhny Novgorod / Горбатовская ул.
 wooden, exposition, open air museum, interesting place, ethnography
The Ethnographical Museum of Volga-region
(Gorbatovskaya, 41; Tel: 65-15-98; www.admgor.nnov.ru/english/museums.eng.html)
There are several of these open-air museums across Russia now, which celebrate the Russian tradition of wooden architecture. Basically, several examples of regional architecture from various periods are dismantled and reassembled in a location not far from a major city into a sort of preserved mini-village.
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Coordinates:   56°16'29"N   44°0'31"E
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