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Museum "Russian Valenki"

"Russian valenki" museum - is the only one in Moscow where you can get to know many new things about such an ordinary object and realize its importance.

Various models are represented in the museum: starting with embroidered valenki of the end of the 19th century up to felt boots which Russian sportsmen - participants of the Olympiad of 2002 - had on them.

    Fuller - in the past that was a craftsman highly respected in Rus, and his skills have century-deep roots. Knowledge of methods and tools of manual felting, stages of industrial production of felted footwear and watching of a video-film enable to trace the route of valenki birth from a clump of fleece up to finished commodity.

    At present valenki are taking back love to them on the part of citizens, and for designers and modellers they constitute a real object of creativity. The results of artists' imagination can also be found in the museum.

    It is warm and convenient in the museum like it is in valenki. Welcome!

   

    As one of the visitors has written in the book of comments:

   

    "There is nothing more Russian than valenki. To preserve them means to preserve Russian culture".



Museum's services:
   museum shop, museum's caffe, equipped for people with disabilities 

Next to the museum there are:
    restaurant(s) or caffes 

 

for museum professionals


Administrative phone:
    (495) 77-525-77 доб. 279 

 
 
Phone: 8 (910) 402-59-13

Address: 115114, Moscow, 

Working hours:* Warning:
preodered visits only

Internet:
    www.russianmuseums.info/M2097 - official web page
    Museum "Russian Valenki" - W720official web site www.gorizont.org/muzey/ 

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