Problems of establishing of new open-air museums in Siberia as custodians of the traditions of wooden architecture (by example of Kodinsk town of Krasnoyarsk Region)

Museums are a form of preservation of the cultural heritage of the past. Open-air museums are a considerable part in the amount of other museums. Buildings made in the tradition of wooden architecture have a significant historical and cultural value. This article focuses on the prospects of forming of a new open-air museum of wooden architecture in Kodinsk city (Kezhemskiy District of Krasnoyarsk Region). In the Soviet Union, the peak of interest in the creation of open-air museums came in the 1960-1970s. The 1990s in Russia celebrated a new surge of interest in open-air museums, historical and architectural museums initiated by the growth of national consciousness, the search for "roots" and "national path of development". The shape of the open-air museum is effective to a large extent when it is impossible to keep real estate asset of cultural heritage in situ. Nowadays a similar situation is observed in the Lower Angara region in connection with the construction of hydropower stations and the upcoming flooding of many Russian old settlements of Kezhemskiy District of Krasnoyarsk Region by the Boguchan artificial reservoir. To preserve the culture elements of Russian Angara dwellers the concept of a new museum of wooden architecture was created. The location of the museum is chosen in Kodinsk, a successor to the former administrative center Kezhma which will be flooded. The geographical location is favorable for the economic development of the resources of the Lower Angara. This is one of the few large settlements in the region with a developed modern infrastructure. It is offered to place the museum in the immediate vicinity of the city, in a picturesque wooded area on its outskirts. The existing fairly complete description of the buildings that could not be taken out of the flooded area will undoubtedly help in the restoration of buildings at the new location, as they present typical constructions and in the future they will be the basis for the construction of the museum remakes. In addition, removed buildings and the description of the barns and cottages are needed as a material to store information on building traditions. Formation of the open-air museum, conceived as the custodian of the traditions of wooden architecture in the region, faces such difficulties as the lack of funding and investors, of scientific basis, absence of an elaborated concept and business plan. However, there are positive aspects such as the availability of free land sufficient to accommodate a museum complex of the local type, compliance with the landscape of historical and cultural conditions, the presence of wooden architecture monuments and ethnographic items removed from the flooded area, city residents' demand of the modern historical-cultural space in the form of an architectural-ethnographic open-air museum.

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