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The history of Museum of wooden architecture and peasant life in Suzdal started in 1960's. The Museum was placed on the banks of Kamenka river in the outskirts of Suzdal, on the site of unpreserved Demetrius monastery (XI century). From different villages of Suzdal region were brought here preserved wooden buildings: churches, residential houses and outbuildings. It turned out to be a kind of village, where was concentrated all that was preserved from the XVIII-XIX centuries, that was not destroyed by fire, not demolished or broken during hard times. Among the exhibits stand out the Transfiguration and the Resurrection Churches. They are typical for that time samples of wooden temple architecture, common to villages throughout the region. The museum history started from transferring the Church of St. Nicholas, that stands outside museum territory. The Museum territory includes the house of Agapov merchants housing the exposition "Suzdal merchants. The portrait in the interior". Every summer the Museum becomes a place for different holiday events. One of the most famous and original is the Cucumber festival, held in July, during cucumber harvesting.
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