The synagogue was recreated from documents and photographs of a 1905 building in Zima. Work on the two exhibitions took almost two years.
On 18 July 2026, the museum’s birthday, two new exhibitions opened at Taltsy. The horse breeder’s house is modelled on a building from the village of Tarasovo in Zalarinsky District. The synagogue was recreated together with representatives of the Jewish community from documents and photographs of a building erected in the town of Zima in 1905. Both are reconstructions with period interiors; the exhibitions tell about the daily life of people from different social classes. The work took almost two years.
The museum was founded in 1966. Its 70 hectares hold more than 160 monuments of history, architecture and ethnography from the 17th to the 20th centuries, collected all over the Angara region, moved and restored. In 2025 Taltsy was the most visited cultural institution in the region, with 246,000 visitors.
Sources (in Russian): IrkutskMedia, 18 July 2026; Irkutsk Segodnya, 19 July 2026.
