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The Kostroma Sloboda is an open-air museum of wooden architecture with beautiful examples of wooden churches, houses, huts and banyas (bathhouses), brought here from neighboring villages. History of Kostroma Sloboda museum begins in 1958, when the first wooden church of Transfiguration was transferred from the village of Spas-Vezhi to the Ipatiev monastery. This beautiful wooden church with a slender and elegant silhouette built in 1628 unfortunately, has not survived, it burned down in the early 2000's. A whole town was gradually built under the monastery walls, looking like the ancient monastery posad (posad is a settlement adjoining monastery). The oldest museum monument is a Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1552. Near the Church stands a windmill of the XIX century. Sloboda contains churches, chapels, it has a recreated a village street with huts, farm buildings and windmills. Recreated interiors in huts show all the details of peasant life at different levels of wealth from the rich peasants to the poor. Here you can also see unusual wooden banyas. Their roofs are at the level of bird nests. People entered such banyas using long ladders. The Museum hosts a variety of folk craft festivals.
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