Ibresinsky Ethnographic Open Air Museum

In the village of Ibresi there is the only open-air ethnographic museum in the Chuvash Republic, which is open to the 60th anniversary of the formation of the CASSR on June 24, 1980. In the expositions of the museum, visitors will be able to get acquainted with nature monuments. architecture, history, material and spiritual culture of the Chuvash and other peoples living in the republic. The territory of the museum is 1.2 hectares. The museum constantly operates departments - local history, ethnography, department of cabin crew, art gallery, peasant estate of the early XIX century, peasant estate of the early XX century.The museum stores and exhibits more than 4000 exhibits. The museum is visited by more than 5,000 people per year. Since the opening, our museum has been visited by guests from many neighboring republics, as well as delegations from near and far abroad.

The museum staff collected rich material about the history of the Great Patriotic War, about veterans of war and labor, about the history of the flight school and about the legendary pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresev. During the war there was a military aviation school of initial training in the village. Here, after the amputation of the lower parts of both legs, pilot A.P. Maresyev again learned to fly the aircraft Hero of the Soviet Union. Ibresinians are proud of the hero's name. One of the most beautiful central streets of the village is named after A.P. Maresyev during the life of Alexei Petrovich. In the village there is a commemorative obelisk with an inscription about the memorable days of restoring A.P. Maresyev’s flight skills in the Ibresinsky Flight School after a serious wound.

The museum has a large portrait gallery of paintings by participants of the Great Patriotic War, written by famous artists of the Chuvash Republic.

In addition to exhibition, educational and research events, the museum annually hosts mass events of republican significance. Festival of folklore collectives, Celebration of Santa Claus, Competition of strongmen, etc.