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The exhibition is devoted to one of the outstanding phenomena of Russian culture. In the old days, practically every farmer had carpentry skills. And Russian North was especially famous for skillful carpenters. The wooden churches of Russian North, although many of them have been lost by now and the remaining ones claim restorers’ attention, still strike us with their splendor and severe restrained beauty. The famous masterpiece of Russian wooden architecture — The Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Kizhi Pogost Of Our Savior was created by unknown masters.

The exhibition demonstrates all the stages of wooden church erection from laying out a building foundation to the moment when carpenters get their payment, exposes the basic carpentry principles — from timber selection to the most complex wood joints. The visitors will also get acquainted with carpenter’s tool kit, including 25 items, such as an ax, an adz, a drawknife and a borer. Among the exhibited items are original details of wooden buildings, replicas of Kizhi island churches and houses, photos of lost pieces of wooden architecture.

Video films present traditional carpentry techniques, demonstrated by carpenters from Kizhi Museum Carpenters’ Center: bark stripping, logs fitting, joining of logs, hewing planks, aspen shingles, roof fascia boards.

A model of a barn as a construction set will be the interactive element of the exhibition.

On June 3–8 the Carpenters’ Center of Kizhi Museum invites you to watch the demonstration of traditional carpentry techniques (at the stage behind the museum Exhibition hall, Fedosovoy st., 19)