Wooden Architecture and Folk Art Museum «Malye Korely» The special feature of the Museum is the fact that it was the first open-air museum in Russia the shape and plan of which had been designed basing on preliminary architectural, historical, ethnographical researches that had substantiated the monuments choice and location. The Museum strategy is to preserve the inimitable creations of the folk architecture to the future generations, to show the mode of daily life in the Russian northern village in the past. The Museum is located 25 km from Arkhangelsk, on the picturesque bank of the Northern Dvina, near the village of Malye Korely; it was opened for visitors in 1973.