Belgorod Museum of Folk Culture, Folk culture museum in Belgorod, Russia.
The Belgorod Museum of Folk Culture holds traditional objects, regional clothing, and handmade crafts from the local area. The displays show how people lived here and what skills were part of their daily lives.
The museum opened in 1999 to preserve the folk arts and crafts traditions of the region. Since then it has recorded and protected the handmade practices of people living here.
The museum stages theatrical holidays based on the Russian folk calendar, with guests from Belgorod families, preschoolers, schoolchildren and university students, including foreign students. It also runs a Women's Club, a Family Centre and craft master classes. A wedding complex displays blessed icons, a wedding carpet and the bride's costume of striped skirt, black-threaded shirt and old headscarf, worn on the first wedding day to mark the end of maidenhood.
Call ahead to arrange a guided tour or check the museum's website for visiting information. Weekends tend to be better times to visit, when more activities and demonstrations happen.
The building at Grazhdansky Prospekt 61 was long tied to culture: it housed the Orion cinema, a city theatre and an art museum. Its hall hosted early film screenings, gymnasium balls and performances by Igor Ilyinsky, Vera Maretskaya and Klavdiya Shulzhenko.
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