The Museum of wooden architecture is one of the few museums of this profile on the territory of the Siberian region – acquaints its visitors with important stages in the history of Tomsk wooden architecture. Since the tree was in Russia the most affordable and reasonable construction material in buildings of wood embodied practical experience and aesthetic ideals of several generations of the Russian people. Tomsk wooden architecture, including architectural carvings, and forming part of, having passed all stages of development from the archaic buildings to modern, became part of the history of domestic architecture.
Given the interest in wooden architecture, as well as the need to preserve samples of wooden carving, created and operates the Museum of wooden architecture”, Department of the Tomsk regional art Museum. In May 2009 officially has opened a Permanent exhibition of the Museum. The Museum is housed in the building – a monument of wooden architecture of Federal importance, representing one of the striking examples of modern architecture. This former mansion of a civil engineer – A. D. Kryachkova, made a significant contribution to the formation of the architectural appearance of the old Tomsk.
In the halls of the Museum are exhibited in the form of a sequential story about the history of wooden construction and development of architectural decoration. The basis of the exhibits is a collection of the “Museum of wooden architecture”. Numerous wood fragments of houses, mostly window architraves, pilasters, cornices, and other examples of carved decoration. The visitors are offered exhibitions of works by masters of the art wood processing. In addition to visiting the exhibition at the Museum of lectures about the work of the architects of the provincial city, architectural styles.
We accept bookings for city tours. Good tradition began holding public conferences on the problems of preservation of cultural heritage. Museum staff advising on the development of the historical areas of the city, wooden architecture. Museum educational programmes are tailored to the interests and peculiarities of the perception of the individual age groups of visitors.
