Khokhlovka

The museum was founded in 1969 and opened to visitors on 17 September 1980 — the first open-air museum of wooden architecture in the Urals. On the headland where the Mulyanka river joins the Kama, forty-three kilometres east of Perm, the finest examples of the region's folk wooden architecture have been gathered. Twenty-three monuments of the late seventeenth to the first half of the twentieth century are laid out across thirty-five hectares like a natural village: churches and windmills, peasant homesteads and hunting lodges. Every house is genuine, brought from its own corner of the Kama land and reassembled on the headland. Khokhlovka is rewarding in any season: in summer — greenery and the river, in autumn — crimson over the Kama, in winter — snow-covered roofs. The headland opens far views over the wide Kama, and the silence between the log houses is almost audible.