Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples
Этнографический музей народов Забайкалья
A sprawling open-air folk museum that re-creates traditional dwellings such as Buryat yurts, wooden houses of the Old Believers, and Evenki tents.
The museum lies in the pine forest of Verkhnyaya Berezovka, north of the city. It is divided into exhibition areas covering the Neolithic period, the Evenki, the Buryat, the Old Believers, the Cossacks, and urban life. More than 40 original wooden houses, yurts, and churches have been relocated and rebuilt here, and visitors can go inside them. There is also a small zoo where you can see Baikal seals. Folk festivals are often held here in summer. The museum is closed on Mondays. It is open about 10:00 to 18:00, with shorter hours in winter. Admission costs about 300 rubles. It is about 7 km from the city center, and bus route 8 goes there.
Opening hours
Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00
Nearby sights
- Rinpoche Bagsha Datsan
- National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia
- Lenin Head Monument (Soviets Square)
- Buryat Opera and Ballet Theatre
- Museum of Nature of Buryatia
- Lenin Street Pedestrian Zone & Triumphal Arch
- Odigitrievsky Cathedral
- Ivolginsky Datsan