Russian regions: 51 year since the foundation of the museum “Malye Korely”

The Museum “Malye Korely” turned 51 year since its foundation. July 17, 1964 was signed the decision of the Executive Committee of the Arkhangelsk Regional Council of People’s Deputies №504 “On the opening of the ethnographic museum-reserve of the wooden architecture in the open air in Arkhangelsk”.

The first monument to the architecture exposition of the museum – a windmill (1744) from the village of Bor of the Kholmogory district – was taken in 1968. The same year the museum took the most ancient (XVI) monument of architecture – the bell tower from the village Kuliga-Drakovanovo of the Krasnoborsky district. In 1973 was completed the formation of the Kargopol-Onega sector, and on July 1 “Malye Korely” were officially opened to visitors.

Since 1983, the museum is a member of the Association of European open-air museums, and since 1996 – it is included in the State code of the most valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. Today, architectural and landscape exhibition occupies 140 hectares of land on which there are more than 120 buildings of wooden architecture. The whole area of "Small Corel" is divided into four sectors: Kargopol-Onega, Dvina, Pinega and Mezen. The museum also includes the temple ensemble in Nyonoksa, St. Nicholas Church in Lyavle, business assembly home and House Manor of M. T. Kunitsyna in Arkhangelsk.