Museum of wooden architecture "Shchelokov farm"

Municipal Autonomous Institution of Culture "Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Shchelokov Farm" includes monuments of wooden architecture - unique samples of Russian architectural and construction culture of the late XVII - early XX centuries. The territory of the museum is 35.9 hectares and is a section of forest of the first category (a monument of nature of regional importance), divided by two deep ravines into three unequal parts.

The museum was created on January 1, 2014 on the basis of the property of the Museum of Architecture and Life of the Peoples of the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region (branch of the State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve) opened on June 3, 1973. The decision to establish the museum was made on December 19, 1958 (order of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR). The purpose of the museum was defined as the preservation, study and promotion of various manifestations of the cultural heritage of the people on the basis of movable and immovable monuments of folk culture.