The 'Khokhlovka' museum is an open-air complex of wooden architecture located in the Perm region on the banks of the Kama River, 41-43 km from Perm. Its construction began in 1969, and it was opened for visitors in 1980.
The museum houses 23 architectural monuments from the historical region of Prikamye, created from the 17th to the mid-20th century. These include churches, wooden houses, barns, and other structures that immerse visitors in the atmosphere of past eras. Some buildings feature interiors and exhibits from those times. The museum covers an area of 35.2 hectares. The natural landscape of Khokhlovka, including the river, hills, rocks, pine forests, and birch groves, enhances the experience of walking through the area.
The museum regularly hosts events during national holidays, such as the farewell to winter, festivities on Trinity, and harvest celebrations. It also hosts a large military-historical reconstruction festival and the KAMWA ethnofestival. This is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Perm region. In recent years, the shores of the bay have been reinforced, the embankment has been improved, and lighting has been installed.
The museum is open daily from 10 AM to 6 PM, with the last Monday of the month designated as a sanitary day. The territory is divided into sectors based on the origins of the buildings: northwestern, northern, and southern Prikamye. Three thematic exhibitions are also presented: hunting camp, salt industry, and agricultural complex.
The 'Northwestern Prikamye' sector includes three estates from the 19th-20th centuries from the Komi-Permyak district, representing the traditional architecture of the Komi-Permyaks: the estates of Kudymov, Svetlakov, and Bayandins-Botalovs. The 'Northern Prikamye' sector features an estate and a church from the Cherdyn district. The 'Southern Prikamye' includes five objects: a watchtower, the Church of the Mother of God, a bell tower, a wooden house from the Igoshov estate, and a rural fire station.
The 'Hunting Camp' sector, created in 1996, showcases 19th-century hunting structures from Northern Prikamye: a hearth-nodja, a hunter's hut, and storage facilities for furs and supplies.
The salt industry complex includes four objects: a brine-lifting tower, a salt barn, a boiling house, and a salt granary. Here, visitors can learn about the salt production process. The buildings of the complex are located on the embankment with views of the natural beauty.
The 'Agricultural Complex' contains farm buildings: a windmill, a grain barn, and a threshing floor with a hayloft.
The site for the museum was chosen between Cherdyn, Solikamsk, and Perm, settling on a cape of the Kama Reservoir near the village of Khokhlovka, with the emphasis on the first syllable. The cape is surrounded by water on three sides.
The initiator of the museum's creation was architect Alexander Terekhine, and the decision to build was made by the Perm regional executive committee in the spring of 1969. In March 1971, the sketch project for the construction was approved.
Architectural monuments of wooden architecture from the late 17th and early 20th centuries were brought to Khokhlovka from various places in Prikamye, helping to preserve the ancient buildings. The museum opened on September 17, 1980, as a branch of the Perm Local History Museum. 'Khokhlovka' is considered the first museum of wooden architecture in the Urals, although the Nizhnesinyachikhin Museum-Reserve was opened earlier, in 1978.
In 1995, 'Khokhlovka' received the status of a federal significance museum complex.
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