What to see in Kolomna in one day or weekends

Kolomna is located very close to Moscow, and there it is easily possible to go, both for one day, and for the weekend. Although, of course, in the summer it is better to go on weekdays, or at least shift the trip so that Do not get into the main flow of summer residents. Attractions in Kolomna is pretty standard, and just 1-2 days is enough, to look at the most basic, to count on something special not worth it.

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The content of the article

• 1 Author guided tours
• 2 What to see in Kolomna
  • 2.1 Kolomna Kremlin
  • 2.2 Museum of marshmallow in Kolomna
  • 2.3 Kolomna roll
  • 2.4 Museum primordial: “This money is Kolomsky”
  • 2.5 Zoo Slides
  • 2.6 Museum project “Art communal. Museum. Workshop. Erofeev other”
  • 2.7 Museum “Forge settlement”
  • 2.8 Manor of Lazhechnikovs
  • 2.9 Monument to the water carrier
  • 2.10 Museum “School of Crafts”
  • 2.11 Museum of the development of housing and communal services in Kolomna
  • 2.12 Favorite Toy Museum
  • 2.13 Kolomna Local History Museum
  • 2.14 The Epiphany Old-Golutvin Monastery
• 3 Map of Attractions

Author’s excursions

For those who want to save time preparing for the trip and to dive more fully into the atmosphere and history of the city, I would recommended to use the services of a private guide in Kolomna. On my opinion individual tours are much more interesting organized excursions with their large number of people and hackneyed program. Especially with a private guide you can always agree on a convenient time and day for you.

Below are selected quality author’s excursions, look, maybe something will suit you. First of all, pay attention to tour “Breath of history”.

Excursions in Kolomna →

What to see in Kolomna

Kolomna Kremlin

The entrance to the Kolomna Kremlin guards the quarter. Everything is as it should be – the form, the stylized wooden box and the barrier. True, quarterly yet not real, just one of the tourist attractions that have recently appeared in Kolomna. Historically, the Kolomna Kremlin was not only fortification, but also harmonious architectural ensemble. Unfortunately, over the years it declined and remained in very poor condition until recently. After carried out restoration Kremlin acquired its current, well maintained and pleasant eye view. In the large territory of the Kremlin not only survived a functioning monastery, churches, but also houses and even a school. Can walk the walkways, introducing yourself as a time traveler, plunge into the old Russian and the atmosphere of the county town. On the territory of the Kremlin there is a parking, cafe, museum of local lore, souvenir shops and shops. Tourists will be interested to ride across the Kremlin in an omnibus (horse-drawn carriage). The driver in historical costume, he is a guide, will tell the story cultural landscape around, legends and entertaining facts. Worth such a walk is 250 rubles. More about the Kolomna Kremlin.

Kolomna Kremlin

Local Lore Museum

Museum of marshmallow in Kolomna

Tour price: 350 rubles

Kolomna marshmallow – one of the symbols of the city. The marshmallow museums in Kolomna is actually two. One focuses more on technology. cooking marshmallow, in the other in question, an excursion is an interactive presentation on the subject of tea drinking. The museum is located in the old wooden house architecture on several rooms. On a theatrical tour must be recorded in advance (you can try this morning). Actors in historical costumes play scenes in which the guide tells the story, and the audience tasting different varieties marshmallows It sounds tempting, but in fact, read my link. Liked varieties of marshmallow can be bought in a shop at the museum (quite expensive, 250-500 rubles per pack). In the courtyard of the museum, on open air, there is a cafe on several tables. Here you can order ice cream and drink tea with all the same marshmallow. More about Museum of marshmallow.

Museum of the Kolomna marshmallow

Kolomna roll

Entrance fee: from 350 rubles; excursion – 250 rub

The museum is small but very interesting, it tells about traditional Kolomna rolls that are baked right there, in This furnace of the middle of the XIX century, according to a special technology. At the museum there is a shop, you can buy fresh rolls in it. Guided tour the museum is a theatrical interactive presentation where they tell and show the process and technology making rolls, accompanied by tasting. On a tour in Museum must be recorded in advance.

Museum of Kalača

Primordial Museum: “This is Kolomsky Money”

Entrance fee: 200 rubles, excursion – 100 rub

Small and a little cramped museum, in which only two rooms (one of them is in the basement). Guides tell quite fascinating for adults but small children will be boring. The museum includes rare coins gives an idea about the evolution of money in the old Russian principalities, especially in Kolomenskoye. Here you can see the hryvnia and half a ruble, find out why the ruble is called the ruble.

Zoo Gorki

Entrance fee: 250 rubles, children under 7 years – free

The zoo is located in the Kolomna district, in the village Gorki. This zoo is notable for the fact that animals can be feed (feed sold at the entrance, 50 rubles per bag) and touch – those. zoo pin. This is especially liked by children. Also here you can ride horses and camel, many animals, there is shop with farm products (milk, sour cream), cafe. Beasts well-groomed, open-air cages spacious, clean on the territory. There are yaks, cows, poultry, rabbits, deer, pigs, horses, raccoons and other animals. Good place to relax with the whole family, leaves pleasant impression.

Museum project “Art communal. Museum. Workshop. Erofeev and others ”

Entrance fee: from 350 rubles, excursion – from 150 rubles

New Creative Museum, telling about the communal life recent past (1960s). There are the usual sightseeing tours and interactive, in the form of a theatrical performance recorded in advance), during which the actors in costumes the corresponding era entertainingly tell about the communal life and its features. Such an excursion usually ends in the kitchen, drinking tea. Presentation will be interesting for both adults and children. The apartment-museum can be found not only with the life of the past century, but also with the paintings of various contemporary artists, involved in the project: each of them provides work for personal exhibition, conducts classes and creative conversations. Read more about Artkommunalka.

Museum Artkommunalka

Museum “Forge settlement”

Ticket price: free or for donation at the discretion of the visitor

The museum occupies only one room, but the exposure is very entertaining and informative – various forged items are exhibited here items, the result of the work of blacksmiths. The museum is better and more interesting. walk with a guide who will tell about the history and the destination of every thing. In the collection of the museum there are items life (irons, scales), and antique armor, weapons. In a programme There is also an interactive tour of the forge. At the museum works Souvenir shop.

Manor of Lazhechnikovs

Entrance to the estate – 80 rubles, Excursion around the estate – 100 rubles, The program “Secrets of the old manor” – 250 rubles, the program “Cinema in the estate of the merchants Lazhechnikov “- 100 rubles

The estate is located near the Kolomna Kremlin, in the city center. This historical monument of the mid XVIII-XIX centuries is associated with the name Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov, writer, author of the famous the historical novel “Ice House”. In this place the writer spent his childhood and teenage years, the house belonged to his grandfather and father Ivan Ivanovich. In 1981, the main house of the estate was transferred to the city department of culture, there was created a literary museum. Now this branch of the Kolomna Regional Museum. Permanent exhibition Museum “Kolomna past centuries” tells about the merchant life, the life of the first Russian historical novelist I.I. Lazhechnikov. By ordering a tour in the museum, you can learn a lot about the device. manor, manners merchants. At the end, visitors are shown dumb b / w the 1916 film Ice House, accompanied by a taper game and comments of the museum staff. The museum also pass interactive programs outdoors in the form of theatrical performance, with the participation of actors in costumes. Order tickets for these programs must be in advance. More about House Museum Lazhechnikov.

Manor Lazhechnikov

Monument to the water carrier

The monument was opened in 2012, is located on the banks of the river Moscow, opposite the floating hotel “40th Meridian. Arbat”, at the end Water lane. The figure of the water carrier next to the barrel in accompanied by a dog equipped with a mug where you can throw coins “for luck”. Until 1902, when the first Kolomna was built plumbing, water carriers took water from the Moscow River and sold it buckets The monument reminds residents and guests of modern Kolomna, about this specific and already vanished profession and is good reason to remember and tell children the story of Kolomna life.

Museum “School of Crafts”

Entrance fee: 80 rubles Interactive thematic programs: from 120 rubles

A small museum with a cozy and homely atmosphere, located in present XIX century house and introduces visitors to the device national life, its history. Here you can see a lot of different handicrafts, interior items, dolls. The museum also has a school with a large number of different thematic programs for children, interactive tours and workshops. For example, the program “Hut. Seni. Doll “, a master class for making a rag doll or game program “Seasons” with tea drinking. In addition, there is programs, dedicated to the holidays: Christmas, Shrovetide. Programs must be ordered in advance. The walls of the museum are decorated ancient household items and various products of the people creativity, made by staff and students of the school. AT the room where tea parties are held, the walls are completely covered multicolored patches. At the entrance to the museum to each visitor issue bast shoes from fabric.

Museum of Housing and Communal Services in Kolomna

Entrance fee: free

The museum opened recently, in 2014. Located in the building the first pumping station of Kolomna (built at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1902 the year, the interior of the museum in the form of a cylinder was previously water tank), next to the Marinkin Tower of Kolomna the Kremlin. In the center of the only museum hall is a mock water tower engineer Shukhov. Exposition on several tiers around the perimeter the walls of the hall tells about the origin and development of communal households of the city. Among the exhibits are sewer covers manhole covers, column, house number plates, many photographs and panorama of the city. The organizer of the museum is Alexander Evgenievich Denisov, one of the main ethnographers of Kolomna.

Utilities Museum – on the left, small

Museum favorite toys

Entrance fee: 100 rubles; excursion – 200 rub

The toy museum is located on the ground floor, in the same building as Museum “Forge settlement”. The exposure takes very little room, there are just a few windows with a collection of old toys, which is constantly updated with new exhibits. AT Mostly this doll. The museum owner spends quite a long time. tour, detailed and interesting talking about almost every exhibit of the collection and technology of making toys. In collection there are rare toys of the XIX century, and quite common Soviet. Some exhibits can be touched, children can be with them to play Preschoolers to listen to the tour will be pretty tiresome, but older children should be interested.

Kolomna Local History Museum

Entrance fee: 40 rubles; excursion – 60 rubles, photography – 50 rubles.

The museum is located in a two-story building. It is small, but quite informative. Here are great guides, who can advise including where else to go in Kolomna, what is interesting can be seen in this city. Museum exposition tells about the nearly thousand-year history of the city of Kolomna. how always in local history museums, there is an exhibition of flora and fauna Kolomna region, occupying two halls of the museum. In two other rooms presents the history of the settlement of people by land, archaeological finds, history of construction and defense of the Kolomna Kremlin and items of merchant life.

Epiphany Old-Golutvin Monastery

The monastery was founded at the end of the XIV century by Sergius of Radonezh, near from the confluence of the Moscow River in the Oka. Now it is the outskirts of Kolomna. The history of the monastery is rich in various events. In the 17th century Golutvin monastery was the richest and most influential abode Kolomna district. At the Zemsky Sobor of 1613 who chose the kingdom Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov, the townspeople of Kolomna represented Abbot Golutvina monastery Abbot Abraham. In 1929 the monastery was closed and various institutions were located in it. Now the Old-Golutvin Monastery is a quiet and well-kept place, in summer there are many flowers, there are hives and even greenhouses. Monastery recently restored, on the territory of the former monastery garden built a large building of the Kolomna Theological Seminary. In Epiphany The cathedral houses the cancer with the relics of St. Theodosius, the bishop Kolomna.

Attractions map

P.S. Some sights will seem to someone sucked from the finger, but that is, that is, to go at least once worth the weekend.