"Small Korely" - the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art

"Small Korely" is the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, one of the very few places on earth where the folk art of the ancient North triumphs. The atmosphere in the museum is unforgettable. Almost one hundred and forty acres of enduring admiration. Here in each of the museum's sectors - Dvinsky, Kargopol-Onego, Mezensky and Pinezhsky - architects and artists, ethnographers and restorers worked exceptionally fruitfully to revive and preserve our national heritage.

Start

The main works on the creation of the museum began in 1963, and it took ten years to wait for the discovery. An important role was played by the initiative of Valentin Alekseevich Lapin, the chief architect. The Arkhangelsk specialized industrial research and restoration workshop, where he worked, approached this whole day with his whole team. From remote villages, old villages and villages were brought in disassembled particularly interesting buildings and restored in the museum.

To view such beauty completely, tourists, artists, scientists had to travel huge and often impassable spaces, and this is hardly possible. Now all the ancient monuments are assembled in a single ensemble, and many centuries of historical and architectural life of the North can be seen during a long but one walk. The Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture "Malye Korely" is amazingly beautiful. Adds charm to museum ensembles and uniquely picturesque nature.

Exposition

The museum got its name from a nearby village, where from the twelfth to the fourteenth century lived the koreles - the Finno-Ugric tribe. Fame to the museum came almost immediately - so rare a collection was collected on its territory.

"Small Korely", the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, has unique monuments of wooden architecture since the sixteenth century, which represent unconditional ethnographic, architectural, historical and artistic value. All local buildings are special and often are the top of carpentry. And all the cult buildings of the museum complex - chapels, churches, belfries - the standard of wooden architecture.

Cultural heritage

The Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture "Malye Korely" - a member of the Association of European Museums, is included among the most valuable among the objects of culture of the peoples of the Russian Federation. And in 2012 he was awarded the "North's Distinction" award in the nomination "Enterprise of non-production sphere".

At least 120 church and civil buildings have united here in style ensembles, identical to the settlements of the four districts of the Arkhangelsk region, each of which has its own architectural features. The museum plans to add exposition of the Vazha and Pomor districts. Merchants 'and peasants' huts, wells, barns, windmills, hedges and much, much more are already observed. "Small Korely", the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, will not stop there.

Protected area

The earliest of the exhibits were brought from the village of Kuliga Drakanovova (bell tower of the sixteenth century), the village of Kushereka (Ascension Church) and the village Vershina (St. George's Church of the Seventeenth Century).

In addition to those brought to the museum's territory, there are also native monuments: in the village of Lyavlya - St. Nicholas Church in 1584, as well as an exceptionally rare eighteenth-century temple ensemble in the village of Nenoksa: Nikolskaya, Trinity Church and bell tower. The Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art "Malye Korely" cherishes these architectural monuments carefully.

Living antiquity

In the protected historical zone there are museum complexes of "Old Arkhangelsk" - "Marfin House" and "Manor of Kunitsyna". It organizes exhibition, educational, information events, where the "Small Korely", the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, presents its activities. In the house of the estate opened an exhibition of the interior of the city houses of the early twentieth century, which presents typical offices, characteristic of the middle class of houses in Arkhangelsk.

The museum does not stop exhibitions all year round, for example, the rare collections of fishing vessels of the northern peasantry are displayed, as well as land vehicles. It is interesting to see the technology of sewing carbs (this is a sailing rowboat, which went on the seas since the sixteenth century), as well as all stages of construction of chopped peasant buildings. With the opening of the tourist season - in the summer - there are additional temporary exhibitions and exhibitions.

To tourists

Visitors in addition to self-introduction to art, which brought together the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Art "Malye Korely", can receive a variety of services individually or collectively. This is thematic, and overview, and even ecological excursions, as well as educational programs of the museum for schoolchildren. There are also weddings with all the rituals in Pomor tradition.

Funds of the museum "Malye Korely"

The Museum of Wooden Architecture in the Russian North is very rich: there are almost twenty-six thousand items in the funds, in the main fund - twenty-one thousand, the rest are of scientific and auxiliary value. In accordance with the storage conditions, all items are distributed in several collections, of which ten were obtained. This painting, wood, glass, ceramics, fabrics, metal and so on. Also, these exhibits are divided according to the regions of their creation. Only in the collection "Metal" there are three and a half thousand items, and in the collection of "Fabrics" even more - the number of them exceeded four thousand. These collections of different utensils are the largest.

Children and youth

The pedagogical line, which is led by the museum in its activity, is a promising business, although it was launched not so long ago. "Small Korely", the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, whose history of exhibits is quite comparable with the history of our state, organized educational, educational, scientific and methodological work, directing it to form self-awareness of the ethnocultural plan for children and youth by incorporating cultural and historical heritage in the development process Region. The scope of the educational services of the museum is greatly expanded, where pre-school institutions, schools, secondary vocational education, and institutions of higher education are integrated.

The natural environment

Monuments created by northern architects are unique. But in addition, they perfectly fit into that natural landscape, the beauty of which since ancient times admired all: both guests and local residents. Vegetation on the territory of the museum-reserve also requires constant and relentless care. The beauty of the terrain, vegetation, meadows, water areas are under constant control of the museum staff.

This is the responsibility of the department for monitoring and recording of the natural environment and natural landscapes. Therefore, despite the abundance of tourists in the season and all the huge work with the younger generation, not only do not change for the worse, but also the "Malye Korely", the Arkhangelsk Museum of Wooden Architecture, are constantly beautifying. Photos of different years clearly demonstrate this.

Mass events and exhibitions

It has already been said about the rich and extensive funds of the museum, they help to create a variety of exhibition expositions. These are the features of the life of the Pomor people, rare architectural delights and tricks that the inhabitants of the harsh land in the old days did not shy away, as well as various aspects of the traditional culture of our ancestors. But thematically all expositions are connected by a single theme - this is the North.

The whole year the museum periodically conducts various mass events. For thirty years the museum staff has been painstakingly collecting - a crumb for crumbs, a fragment to a fragment - ancient peasant rites. And today this work is even more extensive: time is running out, people who know the old days are getting smaller. Ethnographic and folklore expeditions for museum employees have become almost a routine work. This gradually expands the repertoire, and creates a scientific basis for new projects.