Visiting Rules and Times @kizhi
The KIZHI Open-air museum is open for visitors all the year round. Open hours:
- Summer (01.06 – 31.08) — 08.00–20.00;
- Autumn (01.09 – 15.10) — 09.00–16.00;
- Winter (16.10 – 14.05) — 10.00–15.00;
- Spring (15.05 – 30.05) — 09.00–16.00.
no dinner-hour, 7 days a week.
Dear guests,
The Kizhi Island is an open-air museum of local history and architecture which includes the UNESCO world heritage site Church of the Transfiguration. In order to keep the Kizhi Museum well maintained we ask you to abide by the following rules[1]:
- keep this place neat and tidy;
- leave your oversized bags in the checkroom;
- leave your pets within the museum entrance area, ask our personnel for assistance;
- you can enjoy your meals in the cafeterias in the museum entrance area;
- smoking is allowed in the designated smoking areas only;
- follow the instructions of our tour guides and museum personnel;
- you can use your camera in the museum interiors, but only without flash;
- professional and commercial filming is permitted only upon the agreement with the museum administration;
- bicycles and other means of transportation cannot be used on the museum main exhibition;
The following activities are prohibited in the museum area:
- making open fire;
- swimming and walking in the swimsuit;
- to be present in the state of alcoholic or drug intoxication;
- bringing in plain weapons, firearms, explosives and inflammable fluids.
- touching or damaging exhibited items, icons etc.