Architectural – Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples. Ulan-Ude. Tour to Buryatia. Buryatia tour.
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Architectural – Ethnographic Museum of Transbaikal Peoples
The Ethnographical Museum of the People of Trans-Baikal region. Operating hours:
in summer - 10am to 5pm, in winter - 10am to 4pm, closed on Monday and last
Tuesday of each month. Opened on July 6, 1973. Located 5 miles from Ulan Ude.
The museum has expositions on the history of ethnic groups living in the region:
Evenks, Western Buryats, Eastern Buryats, Cossacks, and Old Believers.
Ethnographical museum of Transbaikalien was opened in 1973 and got its
popularity among people.
- Evenks Exhibition. An Evenk camp of several birch-bark and hide
tepees: summer tepees of birch bark and winter tepees of fir tree bark. A
shaman’s dwelling with two galleries of wood carvings depicting animals,
birds and fish having spiritual significance in shamanism. Two wooden
storage cabins containing hunting and fishing gear, skis, sledges, sacks,
and traps.
- Prebaikalian Buryat Exhibition. The exhibition displays
eight-sided wooden yurts used by the 19th century Western Buryats (Buryats
of Irkutsk region). The interior has seats for honorable guests, the wife’s
and the husband’s quarters, and household equipment. There is a
Russian-style oven near the yurt. Religious articles are those of Orthodox
church as most of the Western Buryats were converted to Christianity.
- Transbaikalian Buryat Exhibition. The exhibition includes a
winter house and summer yurt of a rich Eastern Buryat family, two felt yurts
and a dugan (small Buddhist temple). The winter cabin, built in 1912, was
brought to the museum from the village Arbigil in the Zaigraevo Region. The
Tibetan-style temple was transferred from the Gusinoozersk Buddhist
Monastery. The majority of Eastern Buryats became followers of Buddhism.
- Russian Cossacks Exhibition. This exhibition includes an estate
of a wealthy Cossack ataman (chieftain), his main house, stables,
storehouses, etc. Here you will also find a house of a poor peasant and a
log cabin called an “exile shelter.” In the 18th century Siberia became a
place of exile for criminals and political rebels. Along the Trans-Siberian
Railway, there were hundreds of such shelters.
- Old Believers Exhibition. This exhibition tells about lifestyles
of the Old Believers exiled to Siberia after the Church reforms of the
seventeenth century. The houses of poor, middle class and wealthy families,
a small chapel, and colorfully decorated gates give you an idea of the
exciting history of this religious group.
- Old Verkhneudinsk Exhibition. The exhibits of this section launch
visitors on a voyage through the history of Ulan Ude (Verkhneudinsk) in the
19th-the beginning of the 20th century. Here you will find an early 20th
century church, a wooden house with a mezzanine and staircase, and a
1-storey house with ornate carvings.
- Wildlife Park. This section of the museum occupies a territory of
35 acres and features native wildlife of Transbaikalie. Here you will see
wolves, bears, horses, sheep, deer, camels, yaks.
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