Kostromskaya Sloboda Museum of Wooden Architecture
Костромская слобода
An open-air museum beside the Ipatiev Monastery, gathering wooden churches, farmhouses and mills moved here from across the region.
The Kostromskaya Sloboda open-air museum sits right beside the Ipatiev Monastery. It contains dozens of wooden buildings from the 17th to 20th centuries, moved here from across the region: a wooden church built without a single iron nail, a well-off peasant's wooden house, a bathhouse, windmills and water mills. Some buildings stand on stilts above the wetlands. Interiors recreate scenes of rural household life, and handicraft demonstrations are often held in summer. You can visit it on the same day as the monastery. Most of the paths are wooden boardwalks.
Opening hours
About 09:00–18:00 (shorter hours in winter)
Nearby sights
- Ipatiev Monastery
- Museum of Flax and Birch Bark
- Snegurochka's Terem
- Epiphany-Anastasia Monastery
- Kostroma Fire Tower
- Kostroma Trade Rows
- Susanin Square
- Central Park & Kostroma Kremlin Site