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The Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok is an ethnographic park covering 38 ha at the foot of Biała Góra, on the right bank of the San, founded in 1958. More than 180 buildings show the architecture of the Boykos, Lemkos, Dolinians and Pogorzans from the 17th to the 20th century: cottages with furnished interiors, Orthodox churches, windmills, a mill, smithies, a school and a manor house. By the entrance is the Galician Market Square, a recreated wooden small town from the early 20th century with a replica of the synagogue from Połaniec, and on the eastern edge there is an exhibition on the old oil industry. On the night of 15 to 16 August 2026 the church from Bączal Dolny, dating from 1667, burned down here.
Photo Gorofil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons1This replica of a 19th-century pharmacy from Stara Wieś stands on the south side of the Galician Market Square, next to the municipal office. It is a grey wooden house under a hipped shingle roof, with a covered porch on posts along the whole front and a sign reading ‘Apteka’ (Pharmacy) above the door.
Photo Gorofil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons2A replica of an early 20th-century house from Jaśliska opens the east side of the Galician Market Square. It houses a grocer's shop selling goods brought from far away, such as coffee, tea and spices. The house has log walls painted in white and brown stripes, a pale boarded gable and a porch on posts in front of the entrance.
Photo Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons3A faithful copy of the 18th-century wooden synagogue from Połaniec, burned down during the Second World War, opened on 7 October 2021. In the prayer hall stand the bimah with an openwork canopy and the aron ha-kodesh, the cabinet for the Torah scrolls, and the windows facing east and south have colourful stained glass. Above the entrance hall is the women's prayer room, reached by stairs from an outside gallery.
Photo I would appreciate being notified if you use my work…, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons4Under the roomy arcade, resting on two posts, horses were shod and large tools repaired; there stands a brus, a sandstone wheel for sharpening. Above the door hangs the sign ‘Michał Zarzyka Egzaminowany podkuwacz koni’ (Michał Zarzyka, Certified Farrier). Inside there is a forge with bellows topped by a carved bear's head, an anvil on a stump, and hammers, tongs and drills, mostly from Wyżne.
Photo MS, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons5The parish priest's house from Ropa near Gorlice stands in the presbytery farmstead together with the barn from Nozdrzec, the stable from Libusza, a well with a large wheel and the granary from Grabownica from 1627. In the office hangs a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph, because the parish priest was also an official of the monarchy, and there is a carved chest from 1771 that served as a safe. The dining room has an extending table for 12 people.
Photo Agastasiak, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons6The village school from Wydrna near Brzozów was built thanks to the efforts of the villagers and the manor, and ran until the First World War. The classroom with a clay floor has bench desks for several pupils, a blackboard, an abacus and a cupboard for teaching aids, and on the wall hang a cross, a portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I and a map of Europe. Behind the classroom is the teacher's home, and in the hallway stands a pot of water for the children.
Photo Pibwl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons7The apiary gathers hives from the Foothills from the end of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century, from log hives hollowed out of trunks to frame hives of the type called słowiany. The most interesting are two figural hives: St Francis from Stróże near Grybów, where the bees fly out of a small hive on the saint's chest, and St Ambrose, patron saint of beekeepers. Hives like this were meant to protect the bees from evil spells.
Photo Gorofil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons8This Boyko chyża (farmhouse) from Skorodne in the Bieszczady Mountains holds a hallway, a main room, a storeroom, a threshing floor, a stable and a sheepfold under one thatched roof. In the main room, with its half-smoke stove, there are benches, a chest table and a loom; in the hallway a quern and a pounding mortar for crushing groats; and in the storeroom barrels and grain bins. The log walls were painted with dark brown paint made from burnt clay.
Photo Pedro Vlsqz, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons9This Boyko Greek Catholic church from Grąziowa in the Bieszczady Mountains has three pyramid roofs, the highest of which covers a dome over the nave, and two-level covered walkways called soboty. Inside stands a five-tier iconostasis from the second half of the 18th century, moved here from the church in Poździacz, and the walls are covered with wall paintings from 1735 by Stefan Paszecki.
Photo Gorofil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons10The mill comes from the Foothills, but it was put up in the Boyko sector by a stream flowing down the hill so that it could work. Water from the pond above the mill turns an overshot wheel, and wooden gears turn the millstones. Next to it stands a flour chest with a bolter made of fine wire mesh, through which the flour was sifted.
Photo Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons11This Greek Catholic church from Rosolin in the Bieszczady Mountains forms, with its bell tower, mortuary and churchyard cemetery, a complex that the museum considers one of the most beautiful in Europe's open-air museums. Instead of an iconostasis it has three late Baroque altars, and a painting of St Florian has survived on the nave wall. It was one of the first to come to the open-air museum, in 1961.
Photo przykuta, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons12The Lemko chyża (farmhouse) of the Dołżycki family holds a main room, storerooms, a hallway, a threshing floor and a stable under one thatched roof. The dark brown log walls have whitewashed stripes, and white geometric patterns are painted in lime on the door and the beam ends. In the main room there is a smoke stove and a small manger for a calf, and in the hallway a linen cradle on poles, which was taken out to the fields.
Photo Przykuta ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons13The bell tower stands in the fence around the Orthodox church from Ropki; it is roofed with shingles and topped with a small dome with a cross. It holds a bell from the Lemko church in Balnica, which no longer exists. Bell towers like this appeared by Lemko churches at the end of the 19th century and developed from the four-walled gateways popular there.
Photo Henryk Bielamowicz, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons14This Lemko church from Ropki near Gorlice has roofs stepping down from the tower to the sanctuary, topped with onion domes. The whole interior is covered with wall paintings, made in 1891 together with the iconostasis by Michał and Zygmunt Bogdański from Jaśliska: above the nave you can see the Holy Trinity, and in the dome of the sanctuary the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.
Photo Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons15The manor house stands on a rise with a view of Sanok and the castle hill; until 1927 it belonged to the Olszewski family. The date of construction was discovered on a beam: ‘Ten Dom stawiany Roku 1861 Majster Socha’ (This House was built in the Year 1861, Master Socha). Its 11 rooms are furnished as a typical home of a moderately well-off landowning family: a drawing room with a piano and a gramophone, a study with pipes, an office, a chapel, a nursery with a cradle and a kitchen.
Photo Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons16On the edge of the terrace, with a view over the whole town and the foothills of the Bieszczady Mountains, there is an archaeological site: there was once a Celtic settlement here, and later an early medieval one. By the site stand reconstructions of old thatched huts, partly dug into the ground, with clay walls and a stove inside.
Photo Przykuta ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons17This exhibition shows the history of oil extraction in the Subcarpathian region from the middle of the 19th century. There is a reconstructed wooden Canadian-type drilling rig and a hand-dug oil pit with a hand winch, a 24-metre steel rig from Grabownica from 1955, nodding donkey pumps, a portable steam engine from 1919 and a grease seller's cart, which was used to deliver oil products.
Photo Przykuta ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons18This potter's cottage from Rzepiennik Strzyżewski near Tarnów has white dots painted with a brush on the beams of the farm part. In the bakehouse there is a potter's wheel and a shelf for drying pots, and next to the farmstead a reconstructed pottery kiln. The equipment was recreated by the potter R. Zaprzałka from Rzepiennik Biskupi, and a flower garden grows by the gable.
Photo Lucekbb, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons19From the 16th to the 20th century Korczyna was famous for its linen, sold in many countries of Central Europe. This cottage has a separate workshop with looms used all year round, with small windows lighting the workplace. Hidden in the attic is a wyżka, a store for thread and linen. The rooms are smoke rooms, without chimney flues, and the interior is set up as at the end of the 19th century.
Photo Gorofil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons20A replica of a farmstead from Nowosiółki near Lesko: the living part is built of brick, and the farm part of wood and stone, under a sheet-metal roof held down by a ridge of poles. The silhouette of a dog is painted on the doors. The interior has been converted into a permanent exhibition of icons from the 15th to the 20th century from the museum's collection, one of the best and largest collections of its kind in Poland.
Photo przykuta, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons21The cottage from Dąbrówka, now part of Sanok, came to the museum in 1961. A blessing for the house and the date 1681 are carved in Cyrillic on the main beam under the ceiling. It used to be a smoke hut, as the blackened ceiling shows. The main room is set up for Christmas Eve: in the corner stands a sheaf of grain called a dziad, wafer and garlic lie on the table, and straw covers the clay floor.
Photo Pedro Vlsqz, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons22This post mill from Domaradz near Brzozów hangs on a post dug into the ground, so the whole mill could be turned into the wind. Instead of sails it has a wind wheel of 24 blades, which drove a quern through wooden gears. Grain was ground in it for the farm's own needs. At the beginning of the 20th century there were 67 windmills in Domaradz alone, and about 200 in neighbouring Orzechówka.
Photo Pibwl, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons23The wooden fire station from Lipinki near Gorlice has a turret for drying hoses. In the middle section stand three horse-drawn carts with pumps from factories in Tarnów, Sanok and Smíchov, and next to them hand pumps, hose reels, an alarm siren and a paraffin torch. There are also firefighters' helmets, belts with hatchets and uniforms, and in the former store motor pumps and fire extinguishers.
Photo Michał Bulsa, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons24The Galician Market Square is a representative picture of the centre of a wooden small town from the early 20th century, of the kind there were many of in old Galicia. Around a square with a well stand replicas of houses from Subcarpathian small towns, including Jaśliska, Brzozów, Dębowiec and Jaćmierz, with craftsmen's workshops, a grocer's shop, a pharmacy, a post office, an inn and a fire station. From a corner of the square a lane leads to the replica of the synagogue from Połaniec.
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