Culture / Podkarpackie

Muzeum Kultury Ludowej w Kolbuszowej

This open-air museum consists of charming villages from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They present the culture of Lasowiacy and Rzeszowiacy ethnic groups, who inhabited the area of the northern part of the present Subcarpathian Voivodeship. In the open-air museum, you can see a world that no longer exists, learn the fascinating stories of people living here and understand the peasant soul. The buildings are presented in layout and environment similar to the original. Individual objects are set up in homesteads according to the layout of the places where they were originally built, and recreating the spatial arrangements of traditional villages. They are in a natural landscape of gardens, orchards and bee yards, fields, meadows, ponds, surrounded by greenery and forest. In some of the farms there are animals. The exhibition is complemented by demonstrations of traditional crafts as well as farm and field work.

The Rural Architecture Museum of Sanok

The Rural Architecture Museum of Sanok is one of the biggest open-air museums in Poland. It was established in 1958 by Aleksander Rybicki and contains 200 buildings which have been relocated from different areas of Sanok Land (Low Beskids, Pogórze Bukowskie, Doły Jasielsko Sanockie). The Sanok museum shows 19th and early 20th century life in this area of Poland.

Sources: wikipedia; muzeumkolbuszowa.pl; trekearth.com; polskieradio.pl