The Taltsi Museum of Architecture and Ethnography is located on the Angara 47 km south of Irkutsk. It is an open-air museum of Siberian traditional architecture. The museum contains numerous unique historical wooden buildings from villages in the Angara valley, which have been flooded after the Bratsk Dam and Ust-Ilimsk Dam construction and have been transported to the museum and reassembled there.An amazing museum under the open sky. We made a stop on the way from Irkutsk to lake Baikal. It is a collection of houses, podvorya, and some fortress / ostrog buildings. All original, all real life so you get to experience the “real thing”, the life of peasants, settlers, kazaks, etcTaltsy Museum, founded in 1966, opened for visitors in July 1980 and has since become a popular stop on the road to Lake BaikalTaltsy is a unique, open-air museum that lets visitors walk around the 40 historical-architectural monuments and over 8,000 other exhibits. The Museum is set on 67 hectares of protected land and featured replicate buildings from historical Siberian villages, including houses, farmsteads, churches, and a school building.
