Manor house from Huta Dzierążyńska (2nd half of 19th c.) ★A wooden, plastered small manor house with a columned porch and a shingle roof. It was built in the second half of the 19th century on the Huta Dzierążyńska manor farm as the residence of the steward of the Dzierążnia estate, known as a rządcówka. The symmetrical layout of eight rooms is typical of the homes of the moderately well-off gentry. Together with the granaries and the farmworkers' house it forms the manor farm complex, and today it houses the museum's Education and Promotion Department.
Farmworkers' house from Brus Stary (2nd half of 19th c.) ★This wooden farmworkers' house (czworak) with a shingle roof was built in the second half of the 19th century for the manor's hired labourers. Four families lived in it: each had a living room and a storeroom, and two families shared a hallway. When it came to the museum in 1980, it was one of the last wooden farmworkers' houses in the Lublin region. After renovation it is used for meetings and receptions rather than regular visits.
Orthodox church from Tarnoszyn (1759) ★A wooden Greek Catholic church with three domes, built in 1759 in Uhrynów, moved to Tarnoszyn at the beginning of the 20th century and to the museum in 1997. Of all the Orthodox churches moved to Polish open-air museums, only this one has been restored to use as a place of worship: it serves the Greek Catholic parish in Lublin. Inside you will see the iconostasis, a wall of icons separating the altar, and recordings of choir singing set the mood.
Church from Matczyn (c. 1686) ★This larch-wood church with a shingle roof, funded around 1686 by Karol Tarło, is the oldest building in the museum and the oldest surviving wooden parish church in the Lublin region. It stands on the corner of the market square of the museum's small town, above the Czechówka valley. It was consecrated in 2002, and Mass is celebrated here on special occasions. The interior has Baroque decoration and a patron's gallery above the sacristy, and you can hear organ music playing in the background.
Manor house from Żyrzyn (mid-18th c.) ★The central building of the manor sector: a wooden, plastered manor house from the middle of the 18th century with a tall mansard roof covered with shingles, round dormer windows and porches with small columns on three sides. Its twelve rooms are furnished as the home of a moderately well-off landowning family in August 1939, with hunting trophies on the walls. In front of the manor house there is an ornamental garden, and behind it a park above the Czechówka valley.
House from Wąwolnica ★A wooden house recreated from a building in Wąwolnica, probably put up in the middle of the 19th century; in the 1930s the carpenter Michał Żydek also had his workshop there. In the museum it is furnished as the comfortable home of a small-town mayor in 1939: a kitchen, dining room, drawing room and bedroom on the ground floor, and a children's room and guest room in the attic. It was inspired by the life of Jan Minor, mayor of Tomaszów Lubelski.
Town hall from Głusk ★This white town hall with wavy gables, red roof tiles and wooden balconies recreates the Baroque town hall from Głusk, now a district of Lublin; from 1870 to 1954 Głusk was the seat of the Zemborzyce municipality. The museum built it in 2010-2013 as one of the first buildings of the small town. Meetings and concerts are held in its hall, and on level -1 there is a toilet adapted for people with reduced mobility, with a lift by the stairs.
Houses of the Jaworski and Libhaber families from Siedliszcze ★Recreated brick houses of two neighbouring families from Siedliszcze: the Catholic Jaworskis and the Jewish Libhabers. They stand on the corner of cobbled streets, and one of them has a mansard roof. Inside you will find a post office, a barber's, an ironmonger's, a tobacconist's, a Jewish kitchen and the Jaworskis' beer house and butcher's from the late 1930s.
Restaurant from Zemborzyce ★A copy of a house from Zemborzyce built in 1933, with a veranda under three little roofs and a decorative balustrade in the style of the summer houses of Nałęczów. The two front rooms recreate the restaurant of Władysława Walczyńska and Antoni Wójcik from 1937, where home-made ice cream was sold on summer holidays. The other rooms hold a grocery and haberdashery shop and a dentist's surgery.
Fire station from Wilków (c. 1915) ★The brick fire station of the Volunteer Fire Brigade from Wilków, with two large doors for the fire carts and wavy gables. The local fire brigade was founded in 1888 and the station was built around 1915; it was one of the oldest fire brigades in Puławy district. The exhibition opened in 2022: inside there is old firefighting equipment that young fire engine fans will love.
Oil mill from Bogucin ★Oil was pressed from seeds here, mainly during Advent and Lent, because for the owners it was extra work alongside their farm. The seeds were roasted in a metal pot over the hearth, ground in a mill and pressed in a press made of two logs about 6 metres long. The building is a copy from 1977, but the equipment comes from a real oil mill. Next to the press stands a 1:5 scale model of it that you can explore by touch.
Farmstead from Urzędów (1784) ★The cottage from 1784, with the date carved on the main ceiling beam, belonged to the well-off Gozdalski family, who were potters as well as farmers. The interiors show the early 20th century: the large room has a wooden floor and a kitchen range with hotplate rings, and the small room a clay floor and an open hearth. By the cottage, the yard of a small enclosed farmyard with a henhouse and pigsties is closed off, and at the other end of the homestead stands a large enclosed farmyard with a barn and a cowshed.
Windmill from Zygmuntów (1918) ★This wooden Dutch-type windmill was built in 1918 by the master builder Ludwik Pastuszak for a farmer from Zygmuntów. It was the first historic building moved to the museum (1976) and the first opened to visitors (1979). Only the cap with the sails turns, set to face the wind. Flour was ground here, and from 1939 groats too. In front of the windmill stands a bronze model of it, and inside there is a miniature of the mechanism that you can explore by touch.
Manor granary from Turka (2nd half of 19th c.)This two-storey wooden granary with a shingle roof, from the second half of the 19th century, stood on the Turka estate. It has two chambers and plain walls without an arcade. On the ground floor there were grain bins, divided by a central corridor. By the end of the 1970s it was already unique in the Lublin region. It stands next to the farmworkers' house from Brus Stary in the museum's manor farm complex.
Cottage from Gozd Lipiński (2nd half of 19th c.)A small cottage from the second half of the 19th century, built by a Ukrainian family of modest means, the Łaszczyhas; from 1925 until the museum bought it in 1980 it belonged to the Konieczny family. It is symmetrical: a hallway in the middle, with a living room and a storeroom on either side. The pine log walls are joined with dovetails, and the roof is covered with smooth thatch with stepped corners.
Bell tower from Lubycza Kniazie (2nd half of 18th c.)This wooden bell tower from the second half of the 18th century stood in Kniazie next to the Greek Catholic church of St Paraskeva. It has two storeys, a stone base, small arches on the upper floor and an eight-sided roof. Together with the church from Tarnoszyn, the churchyard cemetery and the shrine from Słoboda it forms the Greek Catholic complex. It holds three bells cast in modern times at the Felczyński foundry in Przemyśl.
Granary from WrzelowiecThis wooden granary from Wrzelowiec, known as the parish granary, belongs to the small town's church complex together with the church from Matczyn, the bell tower from Motycz, the presbytery from Żeszczynka and the cemetery lapidarium. It has a thatched roof and an arcade on carved posts, under which you can clearly see the walls of thick dark logs. It stands right next to the presbytery.
Bell tower from MotyczA tall wooden bell tower clad in boards, with arched openings in its upper part and a sheet-metal roof. It stands by the church from Matczyn and belongs to the small town's church complex together with the presbytery from Żeszczynka, the granary from Wrzelowiec and the cemetery lapidarium. You can see it well from the market square of the museum's small town, just behind the well.
Farmstead from ŻukówA farmstead from the Krzczonów area, typical of the Lublin Upland from the second half of the 19th century. The cottage, probably built at the end of the 18th century, has festive decorations of straw and tissue paper in its main room, along with musical instruments: an accordion, a fiddle and a drum. Next to it stand a barn, a granary over a stone cellar, a cowshed of limestone, a henhouse and a dog kennel.
Farmstead from Niemce (1890)A wooden cottage from 1890 with a thatched roof, under whose extension on the yard side a cellar of white stone is tucked away. The bread oven stands in the storeroom, entered from the hallway, unlike in the museum's other cottages. The cowshed, stable, granary and barn form an L shape under a shared thatched roof. In this cottage the museum runs lessons about the toys of village children in the old days.
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