The Museum of folk architecture, rural life and children's creativity is located in the picturesque area of Sloboda Ukraine, in the village of Beautiful Slavic district, Donetsk region. In 1992, the Museum of folk architecture, rural life and children's creativity was given the status of state. The Museum is a branch of the Donetsk regional art Museum.
Its existence Slavic Museum began in 1983 as the Initiator of its creation was the A. I. Shevchenko, local historian, artist, teacher and organizer of the children's art Studio "Blue bird". Having gathered a group of enthusiasts and students, he conducted ethnographic expedition, during which they collected items of material culture, folk tales, songs, and revealed monuments of folk architecture. The exhibits for the Museum were collected from all around - from the villages of Sidorovo, Lighthouses, Brigadirovka, and a windmill, which is almost 200 years old, brought from Kharkiv region.
The complex in the open air Lovely village, consists of a rural courtyard of the 19th century - the house, the barn, the windmill, the hives and the well. The most remarkable of all Museum buildings is chetyrehstennoy wooden house – a typical peasant housing Slobozhanshchina 19th - early 20th century In the center of the house is bleached and painted with oven, next to her shelf with pottery, in the red corner icon forged, decorated with flowers and towels, and under the Windows is a large table, a loom and chests. In the barn, the exposition of the tools, and articles carpenters: sleigh, clamps, wheels, decks, comb. Near the barn is a 100 year old forge with current exhibits.
Today the Museum houses more than a thousand samples of folk art and life of Slobozhanshchina 19th – early 20th century – furniture, clothing, embroidery. In the archaeological section of the Museum you can see petrified trees, bones and teeth of mammoths, shells, etc. Real decoration of the Museum, which makes it even more unique, is the exhibition of children's creativity.
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